Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have revealed a vulnerability in the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max as well as other Arm-based chips that can be exploited to defeat hardware-based protections against memory corruption attacks. This so-called PACMAN attack takes advantage of flaws in the ARM Pointer Authentication feature that debuted in 2017.

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