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And he said... BOOM!



Here we are again!
When Steve says something it usually happens...
So what do we have here?
A video.
Yes a stupid nasty video which can crash
ANY iPod/iPhone.
A different version of this video
can even crash many pc applications.
Apple was contacted and a mail
was sent to bugtraq mailing list.
Only a Forbes journalist showed up.
You will read about it on Forbes on monday.
Later that day the video will be posted
here for further "booms"
Clicking on the picture above after monday will crash your iPod/iPhone but it won't harm it.
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  1. s0u][ightOctober 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM

    :) So now we also play with video/sound.
    actually it's fun to hear that a video can crash a device that is meant to play music/videos. playing the bootloader made some ipods crash. my question is: is this exploit usable?

    ps: you found this exploit accidentally, didn't you :P

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  2. ZibriOctober 31, 2008 at 1:03 PM

    It was first found accidentally... then it grew up... a different video of the same kind can even crash VLC (videolan) and all programs using the same libraries (believe me they are a lot)

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  3. s0u][ightNovember 1, 2008 at 4:54 AM

    media players have 2 versions:
    the ones writing directly to the outputdevice
    the ones that send the info to another module
    (this is a design choice)
    is the crash about a file that the outputdevice can't play? (probably not)

    is there any way you want to explain me how this works?( without making it public)

    btw vlc can crash so often :-)

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  4. s0u][ightNovember 1, 2008 at 5:03 AM

    forgot to say

    i'm a linux user so yeah i know how many apps can share the same libraries.
    actually i looked up the dependencies of vlc and saw a huge list. i don't think i'll list them here :)

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  5. UnknownNovember 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM

    Hmm.. put the video back up, please?

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  6. UnknownNovember 3, 2008 at 7:36 PM

    Video back up, please!!!

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  7. ZibriNovember 4, 2008 at 5:04 AM

    The video will be up soon.
    Just not now.
    Stay tuned.

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  8. בן (The_Ben)November 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM

    Have any eta for having it back up?

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  9. FernandoNovember 4, 2008 at 10:31 AM

    [...]
    Why not now?

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  10. ZibriNovember 4, 2008 at 11:41 AM

    It depends on Apple.
    I'm in the talks with them.
    I'll keep you posted.

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  11. UnknownNovember 4, 2008 at 7:53 PM

    Thanks! I hope to try this out! It seems like a (possibly) cool exploit!

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  12. DanielNovember 5, 2008 at 9:48 AM

    Zibri... the Bad-people can use this Bug to do Bad - things?? xD
    If you you understend me!
    Ty

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