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Hackers show off jailbroken checkm8-vulnerable iPad and Apple TV running iPadOS 18 & tvOS 18 respectively

Anthony Bouchard ∙ June 12, 2024
palera1n on tvOS 18 teaser.

A lot of people are wondering if we’ll ever see a jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 18, and while we don’t have a crystal ball clear enough to give you a definitive answer, we will say that there’s at least a chance the iPad (7th generation) gets a jailbreak thanks to being susceptible to the checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit and being compatible with iPadOS 18 – the last checkm8-vulnerable iPhone or iPad meeting both of those criteria.

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Security researcher says PoC for kernel vulnerability targeting iOS 17.4.1 and older coming soon

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 13, 2024
iPhone hacked matrix.

Apple on Monday released iOS & iPadOS 17.5, with a substantial part of that update incorporating a handful of security patches. At the very top of Apple’s “About the security content of iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5” web page is CVE-2024-27804, a peculiar kernel vulnerability in AppleAVD which had the potential impact of an app being able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

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