“fusée gelée”: Reswitched Team’s coldboot hack for the Nintendo Switch
Hacker Kate Temkin announced she has a Tegra bootrom exploit, giving developers full access to the Nintendo Switch. The hacks has been nicknamed fusée gelée (literally “frozen rocket”, which I assume could be interpreted as “coldboot launcher”).
This announce follows that of Fail0verflow, who have disclosed a month ago that they have a Tegra exploit as well (and, incidentally, have Linux running on the Nintendo Switch). Although the teams have worked independently, it is unclear at this point if multiple teams have found the same exploit.
Although there is no word on a release, since Ktemkin associates this work with team reswitched, hoping for a release is not far fetched. The Readme mentions that unsigned images can be loaded on the device. Think Custom Firmware, Linux, and more.
The hacker emphasized that the exploit is a software bug and does not require any hardware modification. She also confirmed that as a Tegra Coldboot exploit, it cannot be patched by Nintendo without Hardware modifications.
There’s been multiple announces of exploits for the Nintendo Switch over the past few weeks, and it will be extremely interesting to see what comes out of those, and how soon.
Source: ktemkin
“She also confirmed that as a Tegra Coldboot exploit, it cannot be patched by Nintendo without Hardware modifications.”
For clarification, does that mean the exploit will work regardless of what firmware is installed, or does it mean we can freely update POST installation of exploit?
I am assuming we will keep trust zone to install the hack. So this will be like b9s on the 3DS once installed it’ll work but you will need other exploits to get it installed first. In short do not update yet.
You will always need an entry point to install exploits so make sure you don’t update until this coldboot exploit is released and even then it’s likely that the exploit could be overwritten we will just have to wait and see how it all works
Both, just like the 3DS 🙂
tht is GREAT! hope for a release soon 🙂