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PS5 Relapse Exploit

179 points • by therepanic • today at 3:44 PM • 99 comments • view on HN

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Muromec • today at 7:11 PM

If I know anything about those communities, they sit on a bag of zero days and another bag of leads to zero days in the bootloader or whatever everjail they need to break out of.

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MaxBarraclough • today at 6:44 PM

At a glance, it looks like it exploits a bug in WebKit's JavaScriptCore JavaScript engine.

Does the PS5's WebKit use JavaScriptCore with JIT enabled? Have to wonder if Sony will respond by disabled its JIT, to narrow the attack surface.

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asadm • today at 7:25 PM

I wish they waited until gta6

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rbanffy • today at 7:30 PM

Is it practical/sensible to turn a PS5 into a general purpose computer? What are the specs?

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Daklone • today at 7:10 PM

Playing PC Games from Steam on PS5 would be a win.

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alightsoul • today at 5:57 PM

Will Linux on the ps5 be back?

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OroPla • today at 6:43 PM

If this lets you install Linux that would be neat.

Unfortunately holding the PS5 controller gives me crippling pain in my wrists and it also doesn't have any games I care about, but if it could become a Linux media PC, you've got my attention. Especially once its price drops due to the next gen coming out.

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t1234s • today at 6:05 PM

From a non-gamer is there any reason there isn't something like an Apple TV Pro that would be a 4K gaming console? I imagine they have hardware capable of this in their existing inventory. Would it be the major game studios are kept locked in to XBox or PS consoles?

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sergiotapia • today at 7:05 PM

Also PS5 Emulation is advancing at an insane pace. https://x.com/BrutalSam_/status/2104554823240860065

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system2 • today at 6:29 PM

If sony released jailbroken ps5 I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Unsure why they do not let us use it as much as we can. They would definitely sell more.

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mococa • today at 7:05 PM

Cool, now we can have disks again :-)

huflungdung • today at 7:02 PM

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cubefox • today at 6:51 PM

> This project is intended for educational and security research purposes only. It does not endorse piracy, unauthorized access, or misuse of commercial devices.

Sure, "education". Releasing exploits for software vulnerabilities has very little to do with education. The relation to piracy is clear however.

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