Hackers manage to freeze PS3 via Tiff exploit

According to reports, hackers by the name of Team ICE and SorroW have released an 'overflow.tiff exploit which is confirmed working on both PAL and NTSC PS3's running firmware up to v2.10. The TIFF file freezes the PS3 via a heap overflow and is being released so other hacking teams can figure out how to make something more useful from it.

[sehnsucht]

Why are they doing this in the first place? Sony gave people the option of Linux for homebrew. It's not like it's the PSP. The only thing they could be wanting from this is piracy (which is hardly viable with Blu-Ray anyway).

[ITR]

Are you kidding we'll be seeing pirated BD discs as soon as the format war is over.

If this is a known hack it should be exploited until Sony fixes the issue.

[pwnsause]

yup, eventually we will see pirated BD movies being sold by bootleggars at the side of a Major NYC street Sooner or later.

[gamesR4fun]

br has been cracked almost since day one
as for linux on the ps3 its very much gimped as a matter of fact its the only reason Id want a crack. Somehow I doubt they'll ever get burnt b/r games to play on it tho....

[BobDog]

the format war is over

hd-dvd is trying to just clear stock lol

[eyeballpauluk]

the last thing the ps3 needs right now is pirated games! The 360 gets away with it as the install base is high so it wont hurt profits as much..not that I agree with it for the 360 either, all my games, which is a large colection now, are legal

[gta_cb]

your comment is spam, this article has nothing to do with HD-DVD its to do with the PS3 not even really anything to do with BluRay although obviously is apart of the system, this could help run homebrew on the PS3 in the future, after all i for one know how fun homebrew can be as i am running 3.80 M33

[BobDog]

i was replying to a comment, and look up, there has been 5 comments on blu ray, why single me out...

[Skerj]

That's usually how it starts, those damn tiffs!!

[Marceles]

Yeah this was the same thing used to crash PSP FW down to 1.0 a long time ago

[Lord Anubis]

This is extremely old. They put it on a memory stick load up the .tiff and load the game.

[DrPirate]

Have fun downloading 16 - 50 gigabytes worth of movies and games each.

In case you didn't know, a majority of Blu-Ray movies are in between 40 to 50 gigabytes worth of data. There's proof out there, but I don't have the link on my laptop.

Games? Sure, the first ones were 4-8, maybe a couple were 9 to 14, Resistance and Motorstorm both had padding files, 16 to 17 gigabytes.

I'd love to see the new PS3 games being minimum 25 gigs, and capping at 50.

I know I already don't have the patience to wait for a 4.7 gigabyte file, let alone have the storage space to hold more than 2 or 3 games at their full capacity. If it works via ISO loader, find me either a 50 gigabyte USB drive, or you'll have to be burning blu-rays.

The cost of an external 500 gigabyte - 1 terabyte hard drive, or a blu-ray burner plus writable blu-ray disks has to be taken into account.

No matter which way you slice it, PS3 makes piracy not impossible, no, piracy will happen, but it just makes it SO inconvenient that only the most determined people will go through with it. It's just cheaper timewise and requires less effort to just buy the games used for 30 bucks off ebay if you need to save so desperately. I bought Ninja Gaiden Sigma for 21.99 off ebay. Go me!

[killer_trap]

i totally agree with you. and besides real gamers don't pirate games, well at least not the good ones.

[jaja1434]

Umm most BR movies are just 25 gigs. Except for the nice long 3+hour ones.

Also pretty much any HD movie can be compressed to fit onto a double sided DVD. But for downloading purpose, they are usually compressed to around 15 gigs or so.

As for the games, there is no reason at all that you would download then in some sort of compressed formate.

That said, it would still take a few days to download but that of course depends entirely on your connection speed.

[jaja1434]

Ahh good old heap overflow... Crashed many a computers while learning C with that error.

[pornflakes]

90% of all ps3 games are under 8GB

the only one about 15-20 gb are

Lair (22)
HS (15)
uncharted (15)

And of course some movies like MGS4 ~50gb

Good ftp means 15gb in 5 hours.

[sehnsucht]

I'm not saying it's not POSSIBLE to pirate the games...I'm saying, by the time you buy all the equipment, you're coming out behind anyway. The disks themselves are $25 for a single layer.

[tweaker]

Come on whats with these types of news. These belong to dedicated PS3 hacking sites.

Whats more news worthy is if these hackers managed to get a "Hello World" code working instead of a simple freeze.

[jaja1434]

Hello World? Nah I would hope the would put something more appropriate up such as, All Your base are belong to us. You know, something with a bit more zing than the all to familiar Hello World

[zslash]

Just because they froze the console means absolutely nothing.

Even if they managed to inject code through a TIFF exploit, it wouldn't work. Unlike the PSP, PS3 has a hypervisor that verifies code running in RAM.

[zonetrooper5]

I've frozen my PS3 by using the internet browser and using to music on the PS3 at the same time lol. TBH, Linux on the PS3 is nothing special and I don't really see the point of it, if I was going to use Linx, Windows or Leopard then I would use either a Mac or PC.