Hello -

Yes; I am pretty sure it is some type of overflow (either buffer or heap).

I have tested this personally on a 3g nano - but from what people are
telling me it also works on 5g and all nanos capable of viewing notes in the
extras area.

Concerning the code: Since the newer firmwares are encrypted - we might need
to take a look at the earlier firmwares like 5g since we know it happens
there. Like I said - I tried to look at the code of the 5g and it makes my
brain hurt ;) I'm guessing it either occurs in strcpy() or malloc(). Here is
what I know for sure right now:

We are investigating a vulnerability(possibly a buffer overflow) in the ipod
that MIGHT be able to run unsigned code.
It occurs in a text doc in the notes area when you have a link longer than
268 bytes.

At this point we have been supplied with the following info:


1.) You need the whole link including the "</a>" at the end for the
ipod/HTML parser to read it as a valid link.
2.)You need 268 bytes in the <a href"----268 bytes here">  for it to crash
3.) We can safely assume that Apple is using strcpy() since the ipod stops
parsing the link after NULL 0x00

That's all I know so far :)

Cheers!

Taylor
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