Later bootroms (A5 chip onward) fixed the bug. 3.1 USB Control Transfer Overflow The bootrom listens for USB control requests (e.g., SET_CONFIGURATION , GET_DESCRIPTOR ). A specific sequence of requests triggers a heap overflow in the USB stack.
void handle_usb_control_request(USBRequest *req) uint8_t buffer[0x40]; if (req->bRequestType == 0x40) uint16_t len = req->wLength; // attacker-controlled if (len > 0x40) // Missing bounds check in some versions memcpy(buffer, req->data, len); // overflow! powdersn0w
Pseudocode of vulnerable function (reverse-engineered): Later bootroms (A5 chip onward) fixed the bug
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