Month: May 2023

• arm64e pointer authentication failure

  

  Product Defects & Quality Assurance Issues expressed on arm64e as possible pointer authentication failures [PAC Failure] and data abort exception errors in Apple Closed Source Applications used for Development. The corresponding X86_64 Exception Code: EXC_I386_GPFLT.

  h02332

  May 3, 2023

  Apple, Quality Assurance

  arm64e, Best Practice, Code Signing, Data Abort, help, man, PAC Fail, rtfm, Transparency, X86_64

• XNU Crash Analysis

  

  This Article is intended for quick assessment of XNU Crash Analysis. Manually debugging the Code is the only way to be sure something is or isn’t exploitable. A Crash is only a security issue if it is triggered by untrusted input.

  h02332

  May 3, 2023

  Apple

  Best Practice, Crash, Exploit, man, rtfm, Transparency