Hacking Wii U Hacking & Homebrew Discussion

[yahoo]

Also, this is an unhandled freeze that hasn't been declared unexploitable, not crashmybrowser.com.

Two suggestions:
1. Keep looking for more, just in case. It's not time efficient to wait for a check on each one. Accumulate a list of unhandled exceptions.
2. Work with someone on an earlier system version to see if this crash happens across 4.0 - 5.3.2.

 

[WulfyStylez]

Can we stop with all the 'OMG I FOULD LE BROWSER CRASH' stuff? Investigating a browser crash like that and building an exploit from it isn't a logical thing to do. It would take much more work to debug a crash like that and figure things out than to build exploits the way people are now.
Like, people have been losing their shit over browser crashes for months now and I don't really get it.

 

[yahoo]

Can we stop with all the 'OMG I FOULD LE BROWSER CRASH' stuff? Investigating a browser crash like that and building an exploit from it isn't a logical thing to do. It would take much more work to debug a crash like that and figure things out than to build exploits the way people are now.
Like, people have been losing their shit over browser crashes for months now and I don't really get it.

While I agree with you on there have been a lot of random "hey this crashes" reports, which more often than not are not exploitable, kelton2 is actually approaching this the way the first WebKit exploit was created (by systematically going through fixed WebKit security bugs). Granted he won't be able to finish it on his own, but it is the legit first step needed to porting the WebKit exploit to 5.3.2. He has gotten a little excited with the number of posts/threads about his findings, but he is just being passionate about it.

 

[WulfyStylez]

While I agree with you on there have been a lot of random "hey this crashes" reports, which more often than not are not exploitable, kelton2 is actually approaching this the way the first WebKit exploit was created (by systematically going through fixed WebKit security bugs). Granted he won't be able to finish it on his own, but it is the legit first step needed to porting the WebKit exploit to 5.3.2. He has gotten a little excited with the number of posts/threads about his findings, but he is just being passionate about it.

The first webkit exploit was found the same way fail0verflow (and gateway and everyone else who's hacked a webkit-based browser in the last few years) did it, though.

 

[yahoo]

The first webkit exploit was found the same way fail0verflow (and gateway and everyone else who's hacked a webkit-based browser in the last few years) did it, though.

Yep, and that is exactly what kelton2 is doing...

 

[Gruntzer]

Don't mean to sound selfish or anything, I know some updated to 5.3 or .3.1 and so on, but what about those of us who stayed at 5.2? Any hope of having an easier time exploiting 5.2?

same bro

 

[dojafoja]

Im just saying, this dude has just been reporting every little error that are just common things to the Wii U browser

Hes 10 years old! I think its pretty cool that he finds this stuff so intriguing.We should try to cut him some slack.At least we know that we have a passionate young kid on our team who will undoubtedly test every single restricted bug and report back to our devs. He gets a little excited, yes, but he just wants to help and get a little credit/praise from the community.

 

[NWPlayer123]

Well this bug at the very least has some credibility in the fact that it's replicatable. Besides, if it hasn't been patched by now then even though the latest Webkit source Nintendo has up is like 5.1.1 you can just look at the code, no debugging necessary. Plus the fact that we have unit tests to work off of.
Again, don't worry about it, it's being looked into, move on and talk about something else (or just stop replying altogether).

 

[Deleted member 342493]

I've decided to take the crash video off YT due to the 2 frames where the URL is visible (it's not the long number URL, but the one after that).

Good, better be safe than sorry .

 

[OncleJulien]

Yep, and that is exactly what kelton2 is doing...

i don't think his enthusiasm is being questioned, simply his posting exuberance...there's a definite lack of self-editing or filter, which, honestly not every ten year old has - the_randomizer, for example...

pusillanimous ad hominem attack!

 

[TheZander]

has anything every been released exclusively on gbatemp?

 

[TheZander]

I mean anything substantial would make one want or care to have credit on something.


Edit: Are you really 10?

 

[TheZander]

I think what the scene really needs is a group fundraiser to get some money together and de-chip the WiiU it's always proven fruitful in the past.

 

[FPSRussi4]

I think what the scene really needs is a group fundraiser to get some money together and de-chip the WiiU it's always proven fruitful in the past.

Yeah like the 3DS hackers who wanted donations then ran. If the devs need donations, they'll say so.

 

[the_randomizer]

i don't think his enthusiasm is being questioned, simply his posting exuberance...there's a definite lack of self-editing or filter, which, honestly not every ten year old has - the_randomizer, for example...

pusillanimous ad hominem attack!

Dude, shut it. It's not helping.

 

[LawnMeower]

When the kernel exploit is released, what can we expect to become possible? would this include full RAM access?

 

[TheZander]

some of the devs and I have been talking about kernels and stuff and basically expect to play stolen games in less then 4 days.

 

[FPSRussi4]

some of the devs and I have been talking about kernels and stuff and basically expect to play stolen games in less then 4 days.

Less than 4 days of the exploit release, or the next 4 days?

 

[TheZander]

Less than 4 days of the exploit release, or the next 4 days?

less then 4 nothing, what are you talking about?

I was merely secondhand telling the person above me to the irrelevance of their question.

 

[FPSRussi4]

You stated in your post that you were talking to devs and we can:

basically expect to play stolen games in less then 4 days.