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--- Quote from: torino on June 06, 2011, 11:03:43 am --- --- Quote from: cotmm68030 on June 06, 2011, 10:40:13 am ---So here's an interesting proposal... A .hi is just a copied section of the target platform's ram.. I wonder if it would be possible to write a properly malformed .hi to cause a buffer overflow in the target emulator's ram to run arbitrary code outside of the emulation platform. --- End quote --- Where is this paranoia coming from? Are you actually accusing me of potentially hiding some virus inside "dkong.hi", which could somehow trigger something, somewhere and do some bad things, for some strange reason? That's like accusing me of stealing your thoughts, it's craazy. -- Now, do you want your thoughts back? Gather some courage and have a go at Donkey Kong. How high can you get? P.S. Unless you beat my score in the next 5 hours I will eat your thoughts!! --- End quote --- My thoughts are made of delicious nougat. I hope you choke. ^_^ I'm proposing a purely theoretical question: Might there be an exploitable vector in mame's Z80 or MB884 emulator to jump out of the sandbox to the host system. As the file you're copying is vanishingly small, your payload would have to be pretty focused. Probably a system call to open a remote location (url) which would then exploit something else on the host system to actually get a meaningful payload. |
| Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: torino on June 05, 2011, 08:02:11 pm --- --- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 05, 2011, 07:26:32 am ---I don't think people are checking BYOAC competition scores on their phones at two in the morning. --- End quote --- I have no idea what are you talking about. I am talking about how to avoid any "checking" and make it all automatic, make it all happen right on your cabinet from within MAME (frontend), without using another computer, internet browser or even keyboard. --- End quote --- You're not understanding the inuendo. In plain terms, I don't think there's the right kind of interest. The comps here are a small-town-like thing, you know? |
| torino:
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on June 06, 2011, 11:52:42 am ---My thoughts are made of delicious nougat. I hope you choke. ^_^ I'm proposing a purely theoretical question: Might there be an exploitable vector in mame's Z80 or MB884 emulator to jump out of the sandbox to the host system. As the file you're copying is vanishingly small, your payload would have to be pretty focused. Probably a system call to open a remote location (url) which would then exploit something else on the host system to actually get a meaningful payload. --- End quote --- Seriously, that's quite off-topic and offending to my kindness and effort to popularize this marvellous and revolutionary new idea. Did you actually try it? Did you sign in as "USA" on DK? One or few people have played Donkey Kong and someone played 1942, so there are two files on that server now. You can too play some other game and your MAME will automatically create a new file in that shared folder, so you can try it without using any of my files, you can put your own files there. |
| torino:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 08, 2011, 09:42:30 pm ---In plain terms, I don't think there's the right kind of interest. --- End quote --- People enjoy their scoreboards on their Playstation and Xbox network, right? So, why wouldn't they enjoy similar "Arcade Network"? I think there would be interest in hundreds and thousands if people knew about it and there was official sponsor to give some credential to the whole thing. I would expect every MAME player that submits scores to Twin Galaxies would prefer automatized option, it would also probably attract many more people to this global competition who are now simply lazy to submit their scores, which really is demanding and inconvenient, so I think there could be over thousand people ready to join right there. On the other hand this works just fine with only 5 or 10 people, try it, everything becomes more interesting and more "arcade-like". It's kind of when you having a free-play vs. inserting a coin, even if trivial that kind of thing can change the whole experience. --- Quote ---The comps here are a small-town-like, you know? --- End quote --- No, I'm sorry, what do you mean? |
| Gray_Area:
.....if you're simply throwing the idea out there for all the world, then this topic is better suited to EE. |
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