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This allows unsigned ramdisks to be booted. It was first publicized by [[ZiPhone]]
 
This allows unsigned ramdisks to be booted. It was first publicized by [[ZiPhone]]
 
==Credit==
 
[[The dev team]]
 
   
 
==Exploit==
 
==Exploit==
Passing boot args specifying a ramdisk in ram > 0x9C000000 allows any ramdisk to be booted.
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Passing pmd*= boot-args specifying a ramdisk in ram > 0x9C000000 allows any ramdisk to be booted.
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== Implementation ==
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* [[ZiPhone]] and [[PwnageTool]] 1.0 and 1.1
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== History ==
   
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Credit goes to the [[iPhone Dev Team|Dev Team]] for the discovery of the ramdisk hack. First publicly released in [[ZiPhone]], using code taken from the [[iPhone Dev Team|Dev Team]] repository, it allowed running jailbreaks on the fly to be quicker than previous jailbreak implementations, due to the fact that at the time it was the only ramdisk hack jailbreak available.
==Implementation==
 
* [[PwnageTool]]
 
* [[ZiPhone]]
 
* iPlus
 
* iLibertyX / iLiberty+
 
* iFree
 
* iPhone Forensics Toolkit
 
* iNdependence
 
* [[iPhoneLinux]] thru the [[pwnage]] exploit
 
   
 
[[Category:Jailbreaks]]
 
[[Category:Jailbreaks]]
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[[Category:Jailbreaking]]
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[[Category:Exploits]]

Latest revision as of 12:15, 27 August 2015

This allows unsigned ramdisks to be booted. It was first publicized by ZiPhone

Exploit

Passing pmd*= boot-args specifying a ramdisk in ram > 0x9C000000 allows any ramdisk to be booted.

Implementation

History

Credit goes to the Dev Team for the discovery of the ramdisk hack. First publicly released in ZiPhone, using code taken from the Dev Team repository, it allowed running jailbreaks on the fly to be quicker than previous jailbreak implementations, due to the fact that at the time it was the only ramdisk hack jailbreak available.