{"id":24663,"date":"2020-06-29T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=33738d09f11f7b74fdd8b41d74848fc8"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:20:33","slug":"new-hack-runs-homebrew-code-from-dvd-r-on-unmodified-playstation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=24663","title":{"rendered":"New hack runs homebrew code from DVD-R on unmodified PlayStation 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: Fuckin' cool. \r\nI love \"Just because\" hacks on retro hardware, I love watching owner-hostile security schemes fall, here we are in the intersection.<\/div>
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A demo from CTurt shows an SNES emulator running on a PS2 from a burned DVD-R. <\/p><\/div>\n

Nearly 20 years after its initial release, a hacker has found a way to run homebrew software on an unmodified PlayStation 2 using nothing but a carefully burned DVD-ROM.<\/p>\n

Previous efforts to hack the PS2 relied on internal modifications<\/a>, external hardware<\/a> (like pre-hacked memory cards and hard drives), or errors found only on very specific models of the system. The newly discovered FreeDVDBoot<\/a> differs from this previous work by exploiting an error in the console's DVD video player to create a fully software-based method for running arbitrary code on the system.<\/p>\n

Security researcher CTurt laid out the FreeDVDBoot discovery and method in detail in a blog post this weekend<\/a>. By decrypting and analyzing the code used for the PS2's DVD player, CTurt found a function that expects a 16-bit string from a properly formatted DVD but will actually easily accept over 1.5 megabytes from a malicious source.<\/p><\/div>

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A demo from CTurt shows an SNES emulator running on a PS2 from a burned DVD-R.
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