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the first <a href="/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Serial Bus">USB</a> (Universal Serial Bus) chipset that allowed unauthorized execution of code, similar to <a href="/wiki/Homebrew_(video_games)" title="Homebrew (video games)">homebrew</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_3" title="PlayStation 3">PlayStation 3</a>. It works by bypassing a system security check using a memory exploit (<a href="/wiki/Heap_overflow" title="Heap overflow">heap overflow</a>) which occurs with USB devices that allows the execution of <a href="/wiki/Unsigned_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Unsigned code">unsigned code</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exploit">Exploit</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PlayStation_3_Jailbreak&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Exploit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/PlayStation_3_Jailbreak" title="Special:EditPage/PlayStation 3 Jailbreak">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The underlying exploit and inner workings of the PlayStation 3 Jailbreak have been entirely reverse engineered<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and reimplemented through the open source <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/psgroove/psgroove">PSGroove</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Through <a href="/wiki/Traffic_analysis" title="Traffic analysis">analysis of USB traffic</a> to and from the PS3 Jailbreak, it was found that the device induced a <a href="/wiki/Heap_overflow" title="Heap overflow">heap overflow</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kernel-space" class="mw-redirect" title="Kernel-space">kernel-space memory</a> to trigger execution of untrusted code.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legality">Legality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PlayStation_3_Jailbreak&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sony had taken a few steps to prevent the jailbreak of the PlayStation 3, and has associated the action as a form of <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a>. In eastern European countries, no action has ever been taken to condemn such cases. </p><p>The cases listed below are lawsuits Sony filed in courts to prohibit the sales and imports of circumvention devices that would jailbreak the system. </p> <ul><li>PS3 Jailbreak was outlawed in Australia as it was considered to be in violation of copyright law. The ban states that PS Jailbreak cannot be imported, distributed to another person or offered to the public.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sony lost a lawsuit in December 2010 in <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a> against the seller of PS Jailbreak. The sales and imports of the product were therefore deemed legal to use within <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, and Sony were ordered to pay damages for trying to block the sales and imports.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In January 2011, Sony had <a href="/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_America,_Inc._v._Hotz" title="Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. v. Hotz">filed a lawsuit against George Hotz</a> for leaking the encryption keys for the PlayStation 3. The case was settled in April of that year, where Hotz agreed to a permanent injunction to never circumvent a Sony product again.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Court had also approved that Sony's lawyers could obtain the IP addresses of anyone who visited Hotz's website.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PlayStation_3_Jailbreak&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/PlayStation_3_homebrew" title="PlayStation 3 homebrew">PlayStation 3 homebrew</a></li> <li><a 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