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This is the Darwin kernel. Pre 2.0, it was vulnerable to the [[Ramdisk Hack]] and may still be, but iBoot doesn't allow boot-args to be passed anymore. It is mapped to memory at 0xC0000000. On startup, the [[kernelcache]] is decompressed and run.
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IOS runs on the Xnu kernel. Pre 2.0, it was vulnerable to the [[Ramdisk Hack]] and may still be, but iBoot doesn't allow boot-args to be passed anymore. It is mapped to memory at 0xC0000000. On startup, the [[kernelcache]] is decompressed and run.
   
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==

Revision as of 21:53, 7 September 2011

IOS runs on the Xnu kernel. Pre 2.0, it was vulnerable to the Ramdisk Hack and may still be, but iBoot doesn't allow boot-args to be passed anymore. It is mapped to memory at 0xC0000000. On startup, the kernelcache is decompressed and run.

External Links

Article by Stefan Esser about exploiting the kernel

See Also