Today has been released
the source code of the Jailbreakme exploit, so maybe this explanation comes a bit late. In the update of the
previous post about this subject I knew that I was right about the overflow in the arguments stack when parsing the charstrings in the Type 2 format, so here is a little more info.
After decoding the stream of the object 13 we can see the following bytes (talking about this file):
The selected bytes are the important ones for this exploit because the overflow occurs when parsing them. Like I mentioned, the Type 2 format is composed of operands, operators and numbers, and use the stack to push and pop values. This stack has a maximum size of 48 elements. We can understand better the meaning of these bytes with this tips: