Chronic Dev Team Finds 5 Userland Exploits in iOS 5

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Posted September 17, 2011 at 3:24pm by iClarified

The Chronic Dev Team has announced that they've found 5 userland exploits in iOS 5 making it very likely that an untethered jailbreak will be available for the upcoming firmware.

P0sixninja made the announcement at MyGreatFest, an iCommunity and Jailbreak convention currently being held in London, England.

While this is a "record breaking number of exploits found", userland exploits can be easily fixed via a minor software update. By keeping the exploits secret, the Chronic Dev Team is hoping that Apple won't fix them before the expected iOS 5 launch next month.

Notably, if the exploits are still present in iOS 5 when it releases, this will bring a jailbreak to the iPad 2 once again.

[via RedmondPie]

Chronic Dev Team Finds 5 Userland Exploits in iOS 5

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Peter - September 18, 2011 at 3:19am

Anyone know if the iphone 5 will be available unlocked right away?

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? - September 18, 2011 at 1:52am

It's okay. Comex is fixing it for Apple!

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uMizcall - September 18, 2011 at 12:20am

Thats awesome news.. thank you Dev team,you guys are awesome Thanks to you I have an iPhone .... When jailbreak stops then I'll stop buying apple products Cant wait

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xypher - September 17, 2011 at 11:02pm

mmmm well there r 2 ex hacker guys working for apple now..i hope they help the devteam

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das - September 17, 2011 at 7:18pm

Great job Chronic!! I hope you will keep their mouth shut. comex is gone already. some day apple will offer p0sixninja a couple of bucks and he'll turn too

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Dimitris - September 17, 2011 at 4:01pm

Great news... record number... in record time!!!

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Chilli - September 17, 2011 at 3:41pm

if they announce it apple may hold the update back -_-

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tony Montana - September 17, 2011 at 3:47pm

yeah they should shut up before apple changes their mind on the release date.. but it will be great to know if there will be an ultrasnow update to unlock the iphone 4

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Iphoneg - September 17, 2011 at 4:55pm

Soon they will be no need in the usa as it looks like most major carrier will support iphones.

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Razorbone - September 17, 2011 at 5:28pm

My thoughts exactly! If they are a bunch of smart guys Chronic Dev Team shouldn't be announcing or bragging about this stuff. They should wait until the official ios5 comes out. Otherwise Apple might postpone the release and correct this problem. What about us idevice users that rely on jailbreaks 100% to be able to use the full function of ios5?

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GG - September 18, 2011 at 11:52pm

Apple can't "fix" anything unless they know what they should be fixing. He didnt announce what the 5 exploits were. And of course he wouldnt announce them, it would be pointless to find the exploits if you are going to blow it before the OS is released smh

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