[h=2]Five New Bootrom Exploits Found In Apple A5 Chip For iPad 2 And iPhone 5, Future Jailbreak Imminent![/h] By Waisybabu | September 17th, 2011
Folks, this is big, big news. In fact, we’d call it the biggest news of the week: jailbreak hacker p0sixninja of Chronic Dev Team has announced that five bootrom exploits have been discovered for the Apple A5 chip which used in the iPad 2 and is strongly expected to be used in the next generation iPhone.
The news comes from P0sixninja talk at jailbreaking convention MyGreatFest. P0sixninja looked ecstatic when he gave the announcement a few minutes ago, in which it was stated that the Apple A5 chip – used by iPad 2 and the one which will hopefully in the iPhone 5 – has been discovered to have five exploits.
Yes, you read that right. Not one, not two, but five exploits have been discovered in the Apple A5 chip. What is even more fantastic about this news is how all of these exploits are low-level bootrom ones. And as quoted by P0sixninja himself “it’s the record breaking number of exploits found”.
These low-level bootrom exploits are, as suggested by the name, related to hardware. Unlike software-based exploits, these cannot be patched with a simple iOS update. Instead, hardware would have to be revised in order to patch said exploit.
As per my knowledge, Apple has only revised hardware once and that was with the iPhone 3GS which received a new model back in late 2009 having an updated bootrom that patched pod2g’s 24kpwn exploit.
Now here is where things get interesting: the exploited Apple A5 chip powers the iPad 2 and the exact same chip is expected to power the upcoming iPhone (let’s just call it iPhone 5). If this is the case, then the iPhone 5 will be pwned for life before it has even released!
What does this mean for you? Well it basically means that iPhone 5 (and iOS 5) should get an (untethered) jailbreak sooner than what was previously expected. If the iPhone 5 uses the exact same chip used in iPad 2, then then both devices will technically be jailbreak-able, regardless of iOS version.
The exploits were discovered by the Chronic Dev Team. A key member of the team itself namely: P0d2g, found exploits like 24kpwn, steaks4uce and also discovered an exploit in the Apple A4 chip, used in iPhone 4, original iPad and iPod touch 4G. p0d2g and p0sixninja are members of the Chronic Dev Team, who were the key developers/hackers behind the famous jailbreak tool Greenpois0n, which back then was the only method available to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 completely untethered.
Now here’s the awesome part, the next jailbreak will be userland, and P0sixninja also quoted that the it will be the most amazing jailbreak yet! So we have high hopes for this one, we’re sure the Chronic Dev Team is bound to please the jailbreaking community with said jailbreak. So yes, the iPhone 5 will highly likely be jailbreakable soon after launch, though the Chronic Dev Team said that they would need the new iPhone 5 itself to see whether the exploits work or not, but, fingers crossed!
Stay tuned as we will keep you updated as soon as we get more info about this!
Quelle: redmondpie
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Es sieht gut aus bzgl. Jailbreaks für iPhone 5 und iPad 2. Es wurden 5 Bootrom Sicherheitslücken entdeckt. Apple kann gegen diese Lücken per Software nichts tun, sie müssten dafür das Bootrom des A5 Prozessors ändern in einer neuen Hardwarerevision. Das hat Apple beim 3GS damals auch getan. Aber die gute Nachricht ist, dass alle frühen Käufer des iPhone 5 wohl mit einem sehr frühen Jailbreak rechnen dürfen.
