PlayStation 4 (4.55) Public WebKit Exploit Now Works with Latest 5.50 Firmware

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If you plan on hacking your PlayStation 4 gaming console running the latest 5.50 firmware to run Linux, you should know that someone recently rewrote the public WebKit exploit to work with PS4's most recent firmware.

Last week we reported that you can now run Linux on your PlayStation 4 gaming console running firmware 4.05 or 4.55, thanks to the PS4 Linux Loader payload tool created by developer Valentin Breiz, which leverages IDC's kernel exploit. However, the hack only supported some PlayStation 4 models having a FAT filesystem.

While Sony recently patched the kernel exploit with firmware 5.50, it looks like hacker qwertyoruiop has rewritten the public WebKit exploit to work on PlayStation 4 consoles upgraded to Sony's latest firmware. qwertyoruiop said on Twitter that his hack should be 100 percent reliable.

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