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PVS-Studio is now available on macOS – weaknesses in the XNU Kernel

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PVS-Studio is now available on macOS – weaknesses in the XNU Kernel

Post by DmitryNovikov » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 7:10 PM UTC

PVS-Studio is now available on macOS – weaknesses in the XNU Kernel
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Re: PVS-Studio is now available on macOS – weaknesses in the XNU Kernel

Post by JdeBP » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 10:42 PM UTC

N64 is just a failure to use something like #if defined(DEBUG)...#endif around a block that is intended to enact an alternate code path in debug mode in a particular case. Notice the commentary.

Re: PVS-Studio is now available on macOS – weaknesses in the XNU Kernel

Post by 0x0 » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 10:47 PM UTC

Are any of these issues likely to lead up to an iOS exploit (or "jailbreak" if you will)?

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