full-disclosure - Re: On the iPhone PDF and kernel exploit

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 05:13:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ryan Sears <rdsears@....edu>
To: Pablo Ximenes <pablo@...en.es>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: On the iPhone PDF and kernel exploit

Well I'm no expert but I'm going to see if I can reverse engineer the PDFs used for jailbreaking (obviously I'd need an ARM assembly book or someone who knows it :-P) and figure out exactly what they're doing. I agree with was said earlier, I'm not saying they're doing something malicious, but if I wanted to backdoor thousands of phones this is how I'D do it. 

Either way anyone interested in doing the same I've discovered that the webserver (lighthttpd 1.4.19) drops the index if you GET a null byte. 

http://www.jailbreakme.com/%00

*NOTE* Doesn't work in chrome

I'll post if I *do* actually find something interesting, but like I said - I'm no expert on REing PDFs. If anyone has any good tools (I remember there was a PDF analysis framework released a while ago - I just don't remember what it was called) please let me know! 

Also if anyone knows how to get in contact with any of the admins for the site (or anyone who runs it for that matter) please either let me know or let them know. Nobody likes a null byte flaw on thier server - the only reason I'm disclosing this here right now is because as far as I know it only allows indexing of the jailbreak PDFs which could aid the community in verifying there is nothing malicious going on.

When they do patch it (IF they do) I'll be glad to send you all the PDFs if you're intereted in working on them - just email me. 

For now I've put together a one-liner to grab all of them, I'm sure there's a more elegant way to get them, but this works:
for i in `curl http://www.jailbreakme.com/%00/ | cut -d '=' -f 3 | grep pdf | cut -b 2- | cut -d '"' -f1`; do wget -nv http://www.jailbreakme.com/%00/$i; done

Ryan Sears
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pablo Ximenes" <pablo@...en.es>
To: "Marcello Barnaba (void)" <vjt@...nssl.it>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 1:56:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] On the iPhone PDF and kernel exploit

I believe Jailbreakme.com is just REsurfacing,as it used to be used back in the days of the first gen iPhone also for jailbreaking. So, it's not excatly the first time this is happening. 

[]'s 

Pablo Ximenes 
(aka brasuco) 

2010/8/4 Marcello Barnaba (void) < vjt@...nssl.it > 

For the first time in my life, a 0-day exploiting remote code execution, 
sandbox escaping and privilege escalation has been packaged for general 
user consumption via a web site ( http://jailbreakme.com ). The actual 
pdf exploit can be downloaded here: http://jailbreakme.com/_/ . 

What puzzles me is.. no notices here on FD, no info on Bugtraq, no CVE, 
no press release by the CERT, as of now. 

The cat & mouse game played by the iPhone dev team and Apple is done to 
liberate our devices from useless restrictions, but the whole point for 
them to exist is because said devices live in a walled garden, that is 
really useful only to the company behind it. 

I've posted more thougths and the few technical details I was able to 
gather (from a tweet!) here: 

http://sindro.me/2010/8/4/on-the-iphone-pdf-and-kernel-exploit 

What do you think? Did someone reverse engineer the exploit? 

~Marcello 
-- 
~ marcello.barnaba@...il.com 
~ http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcellobarnaba 
~ http://sindro.me/ 

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