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

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:04:50 +0100
From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu <mail@...ahattin-gucukoglu.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: On the iPhone PDF and kernel exploit

On 5 Aug 2010, at 10:13, Ryan Sears wrote:
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. 

It didn't work for me.  I use VoiceOver, which didn't like the (fake) slider implemented in javascript, so I had to spoof the UA on a Mac, grab the source, inspect it, grab the PDF, email it to myself ... it didn't work. :-(  iPhone 3GS = 2,1, yes?

> 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

Nice, did you just try it in case it might work, or does this constitute a vuln that wants fixing in current lighttpd?  It's just that indexing happens to be enabled on http://jailbreakme.com/_/ too.
> 
> 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.

Ditto, thanks.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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