PS4 Kernel Exploit Leaked
The Holy Grail of PS4 hacking, discovered by CTurt some time ago but never released, has been leaked today. Known as the BADIRET exploit, it gives full access to the PS4 hardware. It was designed to work for firmware version 1.76 originally, but sources say it -may- work up to 2.01 with a different entrypoint.
(If I have my facts straight, the common webkit exploit was patched after 1.76, but the BADIRET exploit was not patched until after 2.01)
Currently, not much can be done with this, although Team fail0verflow does have an interesting Linux loader that is open source and seems to be fairly functional at this time, the only thing they don't supply is the hack (BADIRET) to load it with.
On a side note, be prepared to drop some MAJOR cash on one of these old firmware PS4's. Maybe you will have some luck here:
https://gbatemp.net/categories/trading-area.157/
Kodi.tv running on my PS4? Yes ma'am!
Source
(Editor's Note: I have a 1.71 PS4 that I will update and personally test this on once I get back from my mini-vacation!)
(If I have my facts straight, the common webkit exploit was patched after 1.76, but the BADIRET exploit was not patched until after 2.01)
Currently, not much can be done with this, although Team fail0verflow does have an interesting Linux loader that is open source and seems to be fairly functional at this time, the only thing they don't supply is the hack (BADIRET) to load it with.
On a side note, be prepared to drop some MAJOR cash on one of these old firmware PS4's. Maybe you will have some luck here:
https://gbatemp.net/categories/trading-area.157/
Kodi.tv running on my PS4? Yes ma'am!
Source(Editor's Note: I have a 1.71 PS4 that I will update and personally test this on once I get back from my mini-vacation!)
