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PS3 Network Hole Confirmed Posted by XanTium | 19-6-2007 12:36 EST

From ps3news.com: Over the weekend placa shared with us news of a potential PS3 exploit discovery. Many of the resident PS3Dev'ers experimented with it throughout the weekend, and several were able to successfully reproduce and confirm it as working! Although the actual PS3 exploit itself requires no copyrighted files from the recent PS3 $DK leak, at this time only those with access to it can copy/upload .SELF (encrypted; standard ELF files currently don't work) files to the PS3 HDD in order to test them. Initially it was thought this method would work with v1.60+ PS3 Firmware, however, at the time of this writing it appears to only work with v1.70+ PS3 Firmware. Please NOTE that this may change, and also we do NOT yet recommend anyone update their console due to this news. Keep in mind this may work for other PS3 titles besides Warhawk and also this process won't actually allow you to execute unsigned code (homebrew, iSO Loaders, etc) yet. It's just one step with much more to come... PS3 Network Hole Guide: Linux Method | Windows Method Full Story: ps3news.com

[BillMan]

That is great news, however this exploit means nothing if it doesn't give us full access to the PS3's hardware.

This could also mean we will be able to play games on an HDD soon.

Providing that it wont be like the one for the PS2 where you needed patches and etc, if people would ever make them.

This is great news, and good job finding the exploit

[danybloke]

So in plain English - Does this mean that they have been able to upload files to the HDD?

That is a good starting point. Hopefully they'll be able to build on this now with haste!!

Good stuff!!

[colt45joe]

QUOTE(Brakken from t e hskeen.net @ Jun 20 2007, 08:50 AM)

You've probably already read about this latest PlayStation 3 exploit on other sites, but what you probably didn't know is that these sites either copy and paste the exploit (and most of their other news), remove the authors credits (or pretend to be the author) and publish it on their page so the general public that are stupid enough to abide by their rules (or help them steal other sceners work - see the "comments" link below) believe they had something to do with the exploit.

Well, you know we here at T e h Skeen look down on these types of scene leechers and always try to provide you with the right story, the correct links and give credit to the person(s) responsible for the files, tools, guides, tutorials, exploits, etc. Anyway, Waisted (aka placasoft) the original source of the latest PS3 Exploit has published a guide, or should we say "HIS GUIDE" on his Waisted website pertaining to his latest PS3 Exploit.

The exploit is pretty straight forward. The new Warhawk Beta game goes out on the Internet to grab some files it then executes. Using some old school DNS spoofing you are able to have it grab any file you wish to run, but due to encryption the file(s) won't execute. If the encryption is broken this exploit could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code (homebrew). It's a long shot, but hopefully we'll see some homebrew on the PS3 some day.

Official Source: http://waisted-ps3.b l o g s p o t . c o m /2007/06/ps3-exploit-17-181-tutorial-win32.html  

[openxdkman]

Strong advise (if you are not interested in homebrew, ignore the post) :

If you are interested by unlimited power homebrew on PS3 and still have firmware version in the 1.00-1.51 range, DO NOT upgrade your firmware.

The ability to fool a game and have it install files in the over encrypted Game Os hard disk partition is interesting for hackers who are trying to understand that encryption.

Once this encryption knowledge is acquired, it will be more interesting to apply it on a PS3 with a firmware version in the 1.00-1.51 range.

People beyond 1.51 will have to do tricky things like opening the PS3, solder wires in order to downgrade firmware, etc...

So, this security hole is a nice finding for hard disk encryption experts. Do not upgrade your firmware just to try a new 'fun thing'. You may regret it later, if you aren't an expert with electronic skills.