Oh my! The flawless iPhone, the pride and soul of Apple geeks all over the world, the top selling phone in America can be exploited!?
It all started when developer Patrick Collison gave the illustrious iPhone a big whack in order to let him create dynamic ‘default.png’ files, stuffs that are normally reserved for those iPhone developers back at Apple.
Out of curiosity, TechCrunch did a follow up and later found that Patrick’s little hack can do so much more than just launch silly images:
… this image hack (which manipulates symlinks) makes the iPhone believe that the code it is loading came from a “trusted” (i.e. permitted) source. Using the same technique with arbitrary code would likely allow a developer to update and execute whatever code they’d like at will…
Source: TechCrunch
Since much publicity has been raised around this iPhone bug, you can expect Apple to release some kind of patch in the next few days. Sorry hackers and exploiters! :-)
1 comments:
This is creepy. The security loop is so easy to encounter. Anyone can do that. The Jesus Phone is finally not so Goddy.
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