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Assuming one has additional browser vulnerabilities, sandbox escapes and privilege escalation bugs. "Broadpwn" doesn't exploit main processor __anything__ by itself.


Does the broadcom processor normally have access to main memory? If so, I would have to consider that a complete attack absent any mitigation technology.


No. It's a pci express device (or SDIO/usb for older chips). All modern platforms have IOMMU's for those, and every decent OS will enable it.




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