Pod2g Discovers New iOS Untethered Jailbreak
The former Chronic Dev-Team meember who has found many exploits in the iOS firmwares, Pod2g recently tweeted that he has found a new untethered jailbreak vulnerability. It is still unclear whether this untethered vulnerability is found in bootrom or in the iOS 4.3 or 4.2.1 firmware. For those of you unfamiliar with the lingo, a jailbreak vulnerability is not an exploit. Hackers first find a vulnerability then work on it to develop an exploit. The exploit is then used in a jailbreak tool to jailbreak an iOS device such as an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
Currently the iPhone Dev Team and Comex are working on an untethered iOS 4.3 and iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak. The Chronic Dev Team has also demoed their GreenPois0n jailbreak tool which is supposed to jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 untethered in the near future. Hopefully, this exploit developed by pod2g from this new vulnerability will be preserved for future firmware jailbreaks. We will keep you updated as more info about this new untethered jailbreak vulnerability comes in.
