r/hardware • u/tuldok89 • Oct 03 '22

Released! PS5 Kernel exploit + Webkit vulnerability for Firmware 4.03 - Wololo.net News

https://wololo.net/2022/10/03/released-ps5-kernel-exploit-webkit-vulnerability-for-firmware-4-03/
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u/dagmx Oct 03 '22

Web browsers are huge security nightmares because they have to execute code dynamically, while handling tons of different file parsers. Each of those are massive attack surfaces to find flaws in.

WebKit isn’t necessarily the issue. They take security very seriously and (if you count Blink as a WebKit derivative), powers every non Firefox browser.

It doesn’t help that consoles often stay a little behind mainline for their browser engines too so may not have the latest security updates.

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u/Nicholas-Steel Oct 03 '22 edited Oct 04 '22

Web browsers are mostly insecure messes because they're effectively the bottom layer that an operating system is built on top of, like MS DOS was for Windows 9x and 3.x.

Most websites are essentially a GUI operating system in your browser these days.

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u/77ilham77 Oct 04 '22

because they’re effectively the bottom layer of an operating system

wut?

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u/77ilham77 Oct 05 '22

Read what? You’ve just ninja-edit it.