Posted Apr 22, 2007 at 06:38PM by Ceasar S. Listed in: News, Videos, Wii Channels Tags: Wiimote, Exploit, Hackers
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Exploits in the cross-platform browser, Opera, is nothing new to this day and age. However, because hackers tend to use exploits to gain leverage into a closed system, they are alarming to many users. So it just so happens that the Wii's Opera browser inherited a weakness from the PC version, allowing a partial gateway for malcode to crash a console's program.

The newest exploit comes in the form of a cunningly coded JPEG file that when viewed would cause the Wii Internet Channel to crash. It only happens with the final release version of Opera, which happened to be patched later in the PC side after the Wii version's release. So if you don't want to be bothered by sneaky malicious code, you can opt to patch the browser.

Unfortunately, the patch is only available for manual download. So no point-and-press-free updates for you, Wiimote toe gamer! You'll have to get your hands dirty for this trick. You should get to it right away, because aside from announcing that an exploit exists, someone even posted how to create the image to crash your Opera browser.




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   by Predator04 (Unregistered) - 2007-04-22
 » Can you

make the url any longer! geeze use tiny url or something! what a waste of time!

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   by pWEN (Unregistered) - 2007-04-22
 » lol

Yeah, a /b/tard definitely figured that out

   by FreePlay (Unregistered) - 2007-04-22
 » Total and utter BS

The video you showed... I looked at the image file. It's not cunningly coded. It's a chopped of JPEG file with a GIF file tacked onto it.



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