Interesting blog: exploiting Dolphin

_Em

https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/exploiting-dolphin-part-1/

Dolphin is a Wii emulator, and a consistent source of interesting technical problems. In the interests of learning more about Dolphin, Wii, PowerPC, and exploitation, I discovered a handful of bugs, and created an ISO file that can run arbitrary code on the host, portably and reliably.

Interesting stuff going on here. And a good reminder: don't randomly trust game images to be safe to run on your computer.

Squirrel

Wow, that's pretty crazy. Has something like this been done with a non-HLE emulator before?

Thundar

So in non-geek/lamen's terms, what does all that mean? Dolphin can f*** up your computer? I mostly use OpenEmu, I only have 1 game in my Dolphin folder, but I don't play Dolphin as much as I do Openemu, for older system emulation.

Squirrel

Thundar wrote:
So in non-geek/lamen's terms, what does all that mean? Dolphin can f*** up your computer? I mostly use OpenEmu, I only have 1 game in my Dolphin folder, but I don't play Dolphin as much as I do Openemu, for older system emulation.

It means that a (malicious) game running within Dolphin could break out of Dolphin and run code right on your Mac.

Thundar

Oh that's just peachy. (sarcastic tone)

_Em

If I were going to do something here, I think I'd write a homebrew version of BreakOut that starts off inside Dolphin, and then moves the gameplay out to the host OS :D

Squishy Tia

_Em wrote:
If I were going to do something here, I think I'd write a homebrew version of BreakOut that starts off inside Dolphin, and then moves the gameplay out to the host OS :D

And then have it print out the spot that the ball hit on paper via your printer every time it hits :D

seanstar

larger problem may be e.g. going after a wonderswan ROM and having the site glibly give me a .pkg file instead of a .ws/.wsc. Nope nopeity nope nope nope :pinch: