16 comments

  • goodburb an hour ago ago

    Tested on three Android devices (version 9, 13, 16) with different Firefox versions under 150 (had to modify for older).

    Two boot looped, I had to enter recovery and the other just powered off [0].

    The demo modifies the wallpaper on supported Pixel devices.

    Tip: Install a Chromium flavor browser (Chromite) separate from the main browser.

    Disable Javascript and hardware accelerated video decoder (commonly exploited) from the flags page and enable reader mode to fix broken JS-dependent websites when browsing blogs and random sites on your personal devices, else dedicate a tablet.

    [0] IonStack https://rootme.nebusec.ai

  • password4321 7 hours ago ago

    Forgot to include "LPE" (local...) in the title so most of us can get back to weekending.

    • Chu4eeno 34 minutes ago ago

      they also found a type confusion in firefox/ionmonkey, so you can go from random website to pwned very quickly.

    • circularfoyers 4 hours ago ago

      Since this enables container escape, sounds like this might still impact quite a lot of us?

  • teleforce 7 hours ago ago

    >Google has rewarded us $92,337 in kernelCTF

    I'm all ears now

    • mrbluecoat 7 hours ago ago

      Seems low considering the wide impact, but maybe the only thing corporations throw big money at is remote exploits?

      • tptacek an hour ago ago

        That's a huge amount of money for a vulnerability.

  • amatecha 6 hours ago ago

    Daaaaamn: "GhostLock was introduced in Linux 2.6.39 and fixed in Linux 7.1."

  • ranger_danger 9 hours ago ago
  • mixmastamyk 9 hours ago ago

    A what?

    • teo_zero 14 minutes ago ago

      I'm glad someone else asked. :)

      It's not so widely used and it's not explained in the first couple screenfuls of TFA (which by itself is weirdly structured, taking entire paragraphs to explain when it was introduced, when it was discovered, etc. before even explaining what it actually is).

      Of course the title was chosen when the article was first published on a site dedicated to security, where probably everyone knows it. This suggests that insisting on unmodified titles when republishing in HN is a poor rule.

    • happymellon 9 hours ago ago

      Use after free?