Rumor - Kernel Exploit in Fifa 09

Demon-Hades is reporting that there is undisclosed kernel exploit located in the game Fifa 09. Unfortunately, it does not appear he plans on sharing the specifics on the exploit. He does share a few clues though. He explains that to find it you would need a full memory dump of the game and that the exploit could come from a savestate or a shader.

"As I said the FIFA09 has a kernel exploit not want to publish for several reasons..."

"May come from a savestate, a shader, etc..."

"but this requires a memdump full"

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For anyone planning on looking into this exploit, there is a small roadblock to overcome first. At the moment, there are no public methods for creating full memory dumps, only methods on dumping lv2 memory. So work would need to start here first, before any other progress could be made.

On the bright side of things, since this exploit is still undisclosed, there's a very good chance it would still work on current firmware. Which could lead to enabling homebrew for 3.50 firmware users.

Unfortunately, there is little evidence to back up Demon-Hades claims, so we have to consider this a rumor. However, it is the first lead the PS3 scene has had towards any game based kernel exploits. Hopefully by putting Fifa 09 in the spotlight, the dev community can examine this game and eventually reveal this exploit.

Below is DemonHades post (roughly translated):

I do not think showing more are demonstrated, but helping others and providing inrformacion.

I am not a coder "hopefully" would dawn, I'm ideologue and analyze the details.

What the exploit as I said in my private message that was copied to EOL (without my consent) was a reply to the question suggested by maee, who kindly responded.

As I said the FIFA09 has a kernel exploit not want to publish for several reasons, including neglecting the business model wave dependence on "x" groups, including Math.

Having the information is to have the power to handle situations as you saw when they released the code in the groove ("as if you throw rice to the pigeons go all at once and do not separate from you, but if they see anything they do not strip is piran "), I for personal reasons I do not do if we manage herds er one more of the herd.

As happened with the game of King Kong in x360, the games have different binaries that can be manipulated and thus act as it adapts to new ideas.

Fijate a simple shader KK, could hack the system, and warning system is light years x360 ps3 for security .. Including myself and all we thought the PS3 had more security than 360, and is not so .

This gave him details of what I watch in its time (the files that make the game of FIFA 09), but this requires a memdump full, not partial as there is currently only the kernel memory dumpee you.

May come from a savestate, a shader, etc ... (see wii with a game text overflow in "x" time.)

Like I said, if I had tried eol generously as the rest of people (not with honors) ubiese made myself a lot of information that today is our web.

Same would be supporting my team and kicking off new jobs in eol, but again the same manipulation of "x" people opposed to disclosure of information makes you think these disputes.

Regarding aid to psgroove normal math, is part of social engineering to continue at the height of the "epicenter of the information on PS3."

You see out of doors again .. no closed doors.

Update: It appears Demon-Hades may not even know the full specifics of the exploit himself, which would explain his vagueness. According to a log posted by Jack90, on Elotrolado, Demon-Hades is calling out Mathieulh because he won't release this Fifa 09 exploit.

"Why not talk about the exploit that brings the FIFA09? I answer you because you are not interested to leave the soft while you can exploit to make money in hardware, is easier to play with the ignorance of people, all people are happy to see that you can do what you both hate PLAY BACKUPS."

Update: Mathieulh responded via Twitter to the accusations moments ago:

There is no such exploit, DH is accusing me of keeping a so called "Fifa09 exploit" secret, if he knew better he'd know that the NX bit is enforced at the kernel level and that you can't exploit games through stack overflows, not to mention he talks of a "kernel" exploit, since when do games run with kernel privileges ? DH is just full of crap. Besides if I had this so called exploit (which I don't) I'd be in my full rights to share it (or not to) with whoever I please.