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Swapnote Remastered's recent update was related to a potential exploit

Gotta keep Nikki safe!
by rawmeatcowboy
14 February 2021
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Seemingly out of nowhere, Nintendo updated Swapnote to Swapnote Remastered a few weeks back. The thing is, Nintendo never bothered to explain why they pushed out the update. While Nintendo themselves remain quite, we might have an explanation the datamining scene.

According to dataminer OatmealDome, Swapnote had a vulnerability in the message parser that could be exploited over StreetPass. This exploit would allow an attacker to run any code they wanted. Nintendo caught on to this issue, and pushed out the update to patch up the hole. This is most likely why Nintendo didn't really talk about the update.

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