[Verse 1] Two and a half years since Apple sealed the crack, May of twenty-four, patch already on the stack, But November fourth, CISA pulls it from the shelf, Says CVE twenty-four, twenty-seven, eight-three-four's exploited by itself— No, wait, not by itself, that's the part they skip, Needs a partner in the chain before it makes the trip, A WebKit flaw slips in first through a poisoned site, Reads and writes your memory, then PAC bypass takes flight. [Chorus] Old iPhones, older code, pointer locks give way, Medium five-point-five, not the headline that they say, Critical's the word they reach for, catchy on the tongue, But the real severity's lower than the alarm that's rung, Still — agencies, mark your calendar, draw the line, November eighteenth, federal deadline, don't miss your sign. [Verse 2] Sekoia found it chained in the wild, iOS sixteen-seven, Pointer authentication, your phone's own gatekeeper, Normally it stops a hacker from faking a return, But with write access handed over, that lock won't hold its turn, The Hacker News got tangled, swapped two numbers in the mix, Said forty-three-five-two-nine wore the pointer-bypass tricks, Sekoia, BleepingComputer, Cyber News agree instead: Twenty-seven-eight-three-four's the bypass, WebKit's the thread. [Chorus] Old iPhones, older code, pointer locks give way, Medium five-point-five, not the headline that they say, Critical's the word they reach for, catchy on the tongue, But the real severity's lower than the alarm that's rung, Still — agencies, mark your calendar, draw the line, November eighteenth, federal deadline, don't miss your sign. [Verse 3] Look back further, twenty-sixteen, Pegasus crossed the gate, Three zero-days in a row, a different kind of checkmate, NSO wrote the playbook, spyware merchants learned it well, Now smaller shops and copycats have got the same tale to tell, Every chain's a lesson, every patch a closing door, But the market keeps on building what was broken before, So the question isn't just "was this one truly severe," It's how many silent chains are already active here. [Bridge] Nobody's sure if they hunted one target or cast a wide net, Commercial exploit kits getting passed round, cheaper every bet, State actors renting tools built by somebody else's hand, Lowers the cost of breaking phones across the land. [Outro] So the fix is old, the listing's new, the label's slightly wrong, Two bugs, one chain, that's the real length of this song, Patch what's patchable, question what you're told, Five-point-five whispered under a Critical, bold. [Chorus] Old iPhones, older code, pointer locks give way, Medium five-point-five, not the headline that they say, Critical's the word they reach for, catchy on the tongue, But the real severity's lower than the alarm that's rung, Still — agencies, mark your calendar, draw the line, November eighteenth, federal deadline, don't miss your sign.
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