PS4 Shown running Linux at Tencent Security conference in China (video)
The infamous Chaitin PS4 Jailbreak was showcased once again, this time at Tencent Security conference in China. A video of the exploit was shared by security research Noam Rathaus from the event.
Although the video does not give details on the firmware this is running on, it is likely running on PS4 4.01, the same firmware this was running on when it was initially revealed almost a year ago.
As a reminder, the team behind the exploit has disclosed it to Sony last year, and the exploit was patched with PS4 Firmware 4.06.
Chaitin tech also allegedly signed a non disclosure agreement with Sony regarding that FreeBSD Kernel exploit, and have never revealed the details of the kernel exploit.
They have however spoken in the past about some of the vulnerabilities involved in the jailbreak. For example the Webkit exploit used as an entry point was apparently based on the webkit exploit used in PS Vita’s Henkaku. Chaitin Tech members named the port of that webkit exploit “FireKAKU”, as revealed on reboot.ms.
However, even if they’ve described some of the components of the hack, the critical bit, the kernel exploit, was never publicly revealed (except for a CVE that might have been connected to the hack), and there is no reason to believe they will ever reveal it. Some scene hackers have also been sitting on that patched exploit for a while now, which is a bit hard to understand.
In other words, there’s nothing new here for the scene: the same old exploit is being showcased in multiple Infosec conventions, a year after it was already revealed, for some reason. In parallel, there hasn’t been any word of a release from hacker qwertyoruiop who claims to have an exploit running up to at least firmware 4.55, and the only rumors of incoming PS4 jailbreaks so far haven’t led to anything concrete.
PS4 running Linux shown at Tencent Security conference pic.twitter.com/WdKfNQoBqT
— Noam Rathaus (@nrathaus) August 30, 2017
Source: Noam Rathaus, via Mathieulh
houston, i have an idea !
u known vdpm for precompiled vita dev packages install
now i would want a pspdpm! psp dev package manager xD
nobody cares about Vita but if PS4 will not be pwned when 5.00 will go live then only option is to keep the PS3 and wait for PS5 hack 🙁
and allso a unified toolchain utpspdpm for uclinux package development
i want a port compiled u see
hostcore adrenaline edition hcae
So, something not news worthy happened?
It’s news worthy in that we might have another chance at a release. Unless this new team is the old team under a new name we will never get anything from them. This new team might be demonstrating a POC of something already known, but maybe this team will release something. The other team is all but guaranteed to not release it.
Its the same team, bound by the same NDA, they won’t release anything, the article does mention this 😛
Oh jeez, I misread the first part really badly….
B-But Sony is so good at security… there are only several exploits…
i have a 3.55 ps4 can i see this 4.05 linux poc ?
If you read the article you already did see the poc.
NDAs don’t last forever.
Actually some do, they will have signed a contract with sony not to release anything, not sure they want to serve jail time for it 😛
are you dense? the fact that they signed an NDA doesn’t mean Sony holds them prisoner forever now. it means there was some exchange of money in order for them not to spill some damaging exploits.
And they will be contractually required to never release it, which they can agree to and sony can demand it, NDA’s don’t have a default maximum length, if its written that you can never disclose it then you can’t disclose it
Known Sony they would have made sure it covered forever…i mean come on this is Sony we are talking about lol
Hey Wololo, check this out
https://www.reddit.com/r/ps4homebrew/comments/6tgwi4/is_there_any_progress_on_a_ps4_webkit_for_47x/dlu2shq/
Thanks!
ps4 CFW please. not Linux!
Be grateful for what you get. Could be like the Xbox1 hacking scene where they don’t have anything. Linux could lead to an eventual full CFW.
go make a CFW and contribute to the scene otherwise don’t request anything and be happy with whatever you get (for free)
HACKING PS4 IS LIKE UNRECHABLE DREAM
Sometimes, the info we get must be taken as is, “literally”; at other times we must interpret it and read between the lines.
can somebody compile me this 3.55-4.05 linux poc plz ?
in nodejs
It requires a kernel exploit to run, which is not released to the public. The only public kernel exploit is for 1.76 at the moment.
Do people really just read one sentence of articles then scroll down for links….
Can we have a PS4 news about hacking and not be totally disappointed afterwards?
PS4+HACKING = always disappointed ending
I can’t believe they burned an exploit using henkaku, Who cares about linux if only a few devs get to keep it to themselves. Meh
Ps3 in 2006—> Ps3 Hack in 2010
Ps4 in 2013—> Ps4 hack in 2017????
history repeating….
This really isn’t news in the least. Sorry to say for those who claim it is, but this junk is on a firmware that’s been patched over already. If everyone thinking this is news thinks this will lead to something bigger than please keep your heads up in cloud 9 and keep dreaming. This won’t promote homebrew on later firmware versions, and never will. Quit fooling yourselves. Sure it’s great linux is running on the ps4 on some obsolete firmware, but it doesn’t mean anything to the firmware version we’re at now.
PS4 CFW will be released on december 2025.mark my words
Thank you for this post and for sharing these great ideas with your readership.