Saurik Patches PDF Security Holes, Fixes What Apple Can't

On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010, Apple (finally) released firmware 4.0.2, which patches the very large security holes exploited by @comex in the 2nd incarnation of JailbreakMe.com and end the short lived JailbreakMe.com method to jailbreaking.

However, in the process, Apple decided to neglect devices such as the iPhone2G and iPod Touch 1G for this update. The only problem is they outright abandoned iPhone2G and iPod Touch 1G users!

Even though Apple acknowledges in their security update the severity of these holes, they left iPhone2G and ipt1G owners high and dry — completely vulnerable to truly malicious variants of jailbreakme (these variants aren’t out yet, but they’re sure to come!).

Luckily for Apple, the Jailbreak community isn’t so callous. @saurik has been burning the midnight oil coding a Cydia package that will fix the holes for all devices and all firmware versions (even going back to version 2.x!).

Since the only reason for 4.0.2 was to fix the security holes, and since the upcoming Cydia package will fix them too (and then some!), everybody should sit tight on 4.0.1 (or lower) and install the Cydia package as soon as it’s out.

I strongly recommend all jailbreaker to install this PDF patch if you are using JailbreakMe.com method.

And please stay at 4.0.1 until new update for jailbreak.