New PACMAN Vulnerability Affecting Apple Silicon CPUs - InfoQ.com
6/28/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Sergio De Simone
by Sergio De Simone
Uncovered by a team at MIT CSAIL, PACMAN is a new vulnerability affecting a defense mechanism available in Apple Silicon processors and known as pointer authentication code (PAC). While Apple downplayed the severity of this finding, the researchers hint at th…
Uncovered by a team at MIT CSAIL, PACMAN is a new vulnerability affecting a defense mechanism available in Apple Silicon processors and known as pointer authentication code (PAC). While Apple downpla… [+2658 chars]
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