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Limera1n Jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPad & iPod touch Not Possible Anymore?

Limera1n Jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPad & iPod touch Not Possible Anymore?

Limera1n Jailbreak for iPhone 4, iPad & iPod touch Not Possible Anymore? [Apple Now Said to Have Patched Up the Limera1n Jailbreak Exploit on New iOS Devices; Is It True?]

Get ready for a rather disturbing report, especially if you have purchased a brand new iPhone 4, iPad or iPod touch and plan to use any of the Limera1n-based tools to jailbreak it. Apple is now said to have patched up that whole Limera1n exploit, which, in case it’s true, means that basically any jailbreak tool out there would be useless on new iOS devices.

Limera1n is an exploit revealed by Geohot earlier this year in a move that caused quite a stir in the iOS jailbreak business. Long story short, the hackers involved in providing jailbreak tools to the crowds used the Limera1n exploit in order to preserve SHAtter, a similar exploit which should have been used for iOS 4.x jailbreak, for a rainy day. But if Limera1n has been all figured out and fixed by Apple then it means Limera1n, GreenPois0n, PwnageTool and Redsn0w would be rendered useless, at least for the time being.

Redmond Pie has it that a user that purchased a new iPad with iOS 4.2.1 on board as a Christmas present was not able to jailbreak it using Redsn0w. So the question that arises now is did Apple really patched up the Limera1n exploit? This particular exploit would work on all existing iOS hardware, so getting rid of it means Apple issuing a hardware revision for all iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPod touch 4G and Apple TV in order to render it useless. Here’s the complete story on how things went down with that particular unsuccessful jailbreak attempt:

I made a trip to the Apple Store today to get an iPad for my old lady (Christmas present). She told me she’d love it jailbroken, so I sat down in front of my computer to redsn0w this 4.2.1 iPad.

One problem–redsn0w 0.9.6b6 could not upload a pwned iBSS (hanged at the white screen on OS X, upload timed out and rebooted into jailed state with Windows).

Furthermore, the device constantly stalls when attempting to dump its bootrom. This leads me to believe the injection vector used via USB has been patched in DFU mode.

Case in point: Any iOS device with a serial number xx050 (this week) or higher might be unable to be jailbroken via the limera1n exploit. Slightly older devices may be invulnerable as well.

Did anyone else have trouble jailbreaking his or her new iOS device? We’d really love to hear more in order to establish whether Apple did find a way to patch the Limera1n exploit for new devices or if we’re looking at some sort of a different scenario here.

[Thanks: http://nexus404.com]

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