Breaking the Sound Barrier, Part II: Exploiting CVE-2024-54529

A detailed technical analysis of exploiting CVE-2024-54529, a type confusion vulnerability in macOS's coreaudiod daemon, is presented. The exploit leverages uninitialized memory in the 'ngne' object and a heap manipulation technique using property lists to achieve arbitrary code execution. The attack involves crashing and restarting coreaudiod to reuse heap-sprayed data, ultimately enabling privilege escalation via a ROP chain.

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