The exploit currently achieves the same "arbitrary kfree" primitive used in the multicast_bytecopy exploit. However, the subsequent exploit flow of multicast_bytecopy has been heavily mitigated against, so this is not a complete exploit, it merely demonstrates the severity of the issue.
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## Should I run this?
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If you have to ask, no. This does not do anything useful, it just causes a kernel panic.
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If you have to ask, no. This does not do anything useful, it just causes a kernel panic.Idonottakeresponsibilityforanydatalossorinstabilitythiscodemaycause.
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## The bug
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[Apple's comment](https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/IOHIDFamily/blob/19666c840a6d896468416ff0007040a10b7b46b8/IOHIDFamily/IOHIDDevice.cpp#L1601) from the source code when this issue was fixed sums this up nicely:
