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Personal blog · blog.chichou.mesecurity

CodeColorist is a personal blog at blog.chichou.me about security. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “iOS Remote code execution vulnerabilities that have been hiding for a decade”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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5HN people?
2021–2021first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post covers an iPhone Wi-Fi bug where a network name containing format specifiers (%p%s%n) crashes wifid, sometimes requiring a factory reset. The comment discusses the bug, not the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal notes

Most-linked posts?

  1. iOS Remote code execution vulnerabilities that have been hiding for a decade
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-14
  2. Quick Analysis for the SSID Format String Bug
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. justshowpost · 2021-07-05
    The description circulating the internets is very vague, involves some obscure personal(?) hotspot... Not going to torture my gadgets, but looks like saving networks with ESSID "%p%s%s%s%s%n" causing wifid to crash on WFLog:message Should also work with configuring network with such ESSID manually. The other sprintf specifiers in ESSID should work too. > factory reset Not that bad, Reset Network Settings fixes. http…

    Comment linking /2021/06/20/quick-analysis-wifid/

    on “New malformed Wi-Fi name bug can require iPhone factory reset to fix”
  2. ingve · 2021-06-20

    Submitted Quick Analysis for the SSID Format String Bug as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  3. c8g · 2021-06-14

    Submitted iOS Remote code execution vulnerabilities that have been hiding for a decade as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. todsacerdoti · 2021-08-06

    Submitted iOS Mistuned Exploit Part 1: Client-Side XSS to Calculator and More as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. notmine1337 · 2021-06-14

    Submitted Mistune: iOS RCE vulnerabilities that have been hiding for a decade as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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