I have often wondered if you could exploit a monitor over the DDC bus sending i2c commands. There have just got to be memory corruption bugs in the display controller code.
They probably also typically have some flash memory, so perhaps one could permanently reprogram a monitor after the exploit?
Could monitors be malicious and exploit vulnerabilities in computers by sending corrupted data over the DDC bus?
The crazy thing is that computers send +5V over the DDC bus to the monitor so that they are able to read data even if the monitor is powered off and not connected to the mains! So, simply connecting something to the computer's display port could be enough.
They probably also typically have some flash memory, so perhaps one could permanently reprogram a monitor after the exploit?