PSP : FrSIRT reports libtiff exploit with risk as "RAISED"

[bbrewer01]

it really means terrorist becasue it says the attackers could finish programs like to 'detonate a bomb' and the psp finishes the program.

[Briggzy11]

To a question asked to me earlier when I translated this...

...There can be a exploit in a MP3 file, We just need somebody willing to try it out

[dadrester]

it means that the agency that sony has payed to test/ investigate the new exploit thinks it is serious enough for sony to update the firmware. thus they have moved the threat up to high risk... i.e. they reckon the downgrader/iso loader is plausable using this hack... i guess it's not really news to any of us here but i expect 2.81 in the next week or two.

FW3.00 won't be coming until the official launch (mid oct iirc) as it's got actual "new features" rather than just being a security update and sony want to launch these with some degree of fanfare, alongside the run up to the ps3 release in november.

[vladiftodi]

actuly , it is high risk if considering that bad homebrew may rick ur psp, like the 2.00 one remember?
but other dangers are not
i dont think fanjita will ofer a dangerous loader

[splodger15]

i wonder if firmware 3.0 would ever get cracked

[felonyr301]

and i wonder when 2.6 be cracked ohh wait it did a while ago so lesson is that nothing in this is impossible but it just takes time.

[FrierTuck]

so what does this mean to me, the 2.70 user, nothing i hope, btw, think this makes me a pro

[jwilds73]

Lol yeah this is a high risk you might actually use your psp after having downgraded it.

[FrierTuck]

ohh, how bothersome that is

[angusW]

This is my favorite quote

When the attack person abuses this vulnerability, you say that by the fact that the illegitimate picture is made to open to the user, fragility being able to execute optional command it finishes on PSP.

I would be really pissed if it finished on my psp...eeewwwwwww.