Xerub develops a new patchfinder that fully bypasses KPP/KTRR

After a brief hiatus, Xerub is back with a bang on the jailbreak scene and has just released something very important for iOS 10 users. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

Xerub writes a powerful Patchfinder

Xerub has just written a new jailbreak patchfinder that bypasses Apple’s Kernel Patch Protection mechanism. This new patchfinder patches the necessary kexts while ignoring the KPP or AMCC (KTRR).

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It will revolutionize the iOS hacking scene as we know it and make jailbreak development a whole lot easier for new devices (iPhone X, iPhone 8/8+).

The only prerequisite for this new patchfinder is that the hacker must have kernel-level read-write privileges. 

Here’s what the talented hacker posted on his official Twitter handle.

We can now develop a jailbreak for all iOS 10 firmware versions up till iOS 10.3.2. Since we already have triple_fetch and ziVA exploits, it’s only a matter of applying several patches now.

Moreover, we also have Saigon iOS 10.2.1 jailbreak readily available, which further reduces the complexity of this task.

According to Xerub, we still require a complete rewrite of the Cydia bootstrap along with the tfp0 patch.

How is this useful?

This is a great development for all iOS 10 users and for the jailbreak community.

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There are three main reasons why this is important –

  • Firstly, you can now jailbreak iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus running iOS 10.2 firmware.
  • Secondly, this new patchfinder will allow hackers to develop a 64-bit jailbreak for iOS 10.0.1-10.3.2 (iOS 10.3.3 will remain incompatible).
  • Finally, it will quash the pesky random reboots on devices using the existing extra_recipe jailbreak. Therefore, they will become more stable as compared to devices using the older versions.

What are you going to do now – stay on iOS 10.3.x or upgrade to iOS 11? Let us know in the comments section below.

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