Release of Play Station 3 Exploit.-
George Hotz, the iphone hacker, after his claim of hacking PS3 on 22nd January, announced the release of the Exploit on 27th January, in a post on his blog.
George wrote on his blog..
In the interest of openness, I’ve decided to release the exploit. Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene, and you will organize and figure out how to use this to do practical things, like the iPhone when jailbreaks were first released. I have a life to get back to and can’t keep working on this all day and night.
Finally the Sony Play Station 3 is hacked to run unsigned and pirated games same as its previous versions PS1, PS2 and PSP were hacked, for the same purpose. But, according to George, hacking PS3 was a totally differnt task all together, as he mentioned in a blog post..
3 years, 2 months, 11 days…thats a pretty secure system
Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.
Shout out to George Kharrat from iPhoneMod Brasil for giving me this PS3 a year and a half ago to hack. Sorry it took me so long
Hacking the hypervisor was an important step towards hacking of PS3. According to George, his hack compromises the hypervisor after booting Linux via the “OtherOS” feature. He has used the exploit to add arbitrary read/write RAM access functions and dump the hypervisor.
George released a zip file of his Exploit which consists of..
- A text document with carry-out instructions
- A C++ file containing the exploit program
- A Screenshot
- A shell script file
- A make file
On the working of his exploit, he writes..
This is the coveted PS3 exploit, gives full memory space access and therefore ring 0 access from OtherOS. Enjoy your hypervisor dumps. This is known to work with version 2.4.2 only, but I imagine it works on all current versions. Maybe later I’ll write up how it works
I’ve gotten confirmation the exploit works on 3.10. Also I’ve heard about compile issues on Fedora. I did this in Ubuntu.
Sony was tracking the sequence of events, from the day the claim was made. It will be intersting to see how Sony responds to this exploit in future. You can download the exploit from here.
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Source: George Hotz Blog
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