For iOS 5.0/5.0.1 Pod 2G, Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team have developed an untethered jailbreak solution called Corona and based on it we were able to jailbreak all our iDevices. In a document publicat on Wednesday, Apple describes the iOS vulnerabilities that have been fixed and for the Apple kernel, it lists a vulnerability that was discovered by a team generically called the 2012 iOS jailbreak Dream Team. In January, this team was generically named iOS Jailbreak Dream Team by Pod2G in one article published on its blog and Apple took note of the name and credited the people involved in exploiting the vulnerability.
Available for: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation) and later, iPad, iPad 2
Impact: A malicious program could bypass sandbox restrictions
Description: A logical issue existed in the handling of debug system calls. This may allow a malicious program to gain code execution in other programs with the same user privileges.
CVE-ID
CVE-2012-0643 : 2012 iOS Jailbreak Dream Team
This is not the first time that Apple credits a hacker with exploiting an iOS vulnerability, comex being the latest example in this regard. comex now works at Apple, but the members of the iOS Jailbreak Dream Team seem not to be that interested in a career within the company.
