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Re: Malicous RC Code?

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Originally Posted by dez250
The FRC is designed to only download code via the prog port. Though i bet that there could be someway a program could be written to beable to download via radio link. Now the biggest issue is the manual control of a download. Prior to any code being able to be downloaded or stored into the memory, you must first manually press the program button, this activates the firmware for a download. So i do not know if it is possible to force a download via the radio link with people not knowing...
Ah but your missing the key idea here! You don't NEED to download the code! You just need to find a point in the code at which you can overflow a buffer which would allow you to dump arbitrary machine code onto the stack. Thats the idea anyway
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