Following the announcement about the new puaf_landa kfd exploit method on New Years Day for 2024, we learned that the kfd exploit’s effectiveness could be expanded to support all versions of iOS & iPadOS 16 as the method was officially patched in iOS & iPadOS 17.0.
In an unfortunate bout of news for the iPhone & iPad jailbreaking communities, respected and seasoned iOS developer @sugiutadev has announced their departure from the community to move on to bigger and better things.
The Misaka package manager app, which hosts a bevy of add-ons made to support both jailbroken and non-jailbroken iPhones and iPads vulnerable to the MacDirtyCow and kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploits, received an important update early Monday morning to version 8.0.0.
So if you’ve been following along in the jailbreak community for the past year, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the kernel file descriptor (kfd) exploit, which supported iOS & iPadOS versions 16.0-16.5 & 16.6 beta 1, as well as iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.7.6.
If you’ve been keeping up with the cacophony of news in the jailbreak community recently, then you may recall a project dubbed meowbrek2, a re-jailbreaking utility for the palera1n semi-tethered jailbreak for A9-A11 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-17.x. In effect, meowbrek2 turns the jailbreak into a semi-untethered one on certain firmware versions that we'll discuss below.
Just last week, the RootHide development team shared that it was working on a Procursus-based bootstrap for TrollStore 2 devices, which was intended to bring a jailbreak-like environment to iPhones and iPads running TrollStore 2.
The team at iDB is as passionate about jailbreaking as many of you are, and that’s the primary reason why we continuously monitor the latest developments in the iPhone hacking and jailbreaking communities.
It was only yesterday that nekoJB developer HAHALOSAH pulled the first beta of the kfd exploit-based jailbreak tool for arm64 devices (iPhone 6s-iPhone X) running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-15.7.6 due to concerns about the tool sharing files that the developer wasn’t authorized to distribute.
There’s been a lot of talk recently about trying to bring tweak injection to non-jailbroken devices with nothing more than TrollStore, and thus far, all tweak injection has been limited to apps and very little else.
Just yesterday, we reported on the release of nekoJB, a kfd exploit-based semi-untethered jailbreak tool for older arm64 devices (iPhone 6s-iPhone X) running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.7.6.
After an entire day of what seemed like good news following the announcement of a KTRR bypass, new information shared on Mastodon by security researcher Hector Martin appears to have even Dopamine developer Lars Fröder second-guessing its usefulness for jailbreaking.
If you’re without a jailbreak and your firmware is too new for any of the recent developments in the jailbreak community recently (I’m looking at all of you who are on iOS or iPadOS 16.6-17.0 and using TrollStore 2), then you might want to pay attention to this.