A flaw in the chip design allows any two applications running under the system to
According to Martin, the company decided to violate the ARM specifications by removing one of the required features. Apple apparently believed that macOS would never need this component.
Since the vulnerability is at the hardware level, it cannot be fixed without a new chip revision with improvements. Devices already released and sold cannot be corrected.
Fortunately, the vulnerability poses a small threat, and even Martin himself considers the vulnerability insignificant and tried to avoid overestimating the problem when discussing his discovery.
The company is aware of the M1 vulnerability.They believe that attackers will not be able to use it, since the data transfer process works exclusively within one PC and only when a special send command is initiated, and transmission to the external environment is impossible without the user's permission.
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