Sammy Hajhamid exploits vulnerability to jailbreak Switch 2 and run homebrew

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Researcher Sammy Hajhamid exploited a 32-bit integer overflow vulnerability in SmileBasic 4 to jailbreak the Switch 2 and demonstrated running homebrew. Using OpenAI's Codex to probe the SmileBasic interpreter, he spent two weeks discovering the vulnerability and thereby gained arbitrary read and write access. SmileBasic 4 has been removed from the Switch eShop, and the vulnerability may be fixed in a subsequent firmware update.

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Latest development · ReportOct 23 16:46

Switch 2 jailbroken, can run homebrew

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Researcher exploits vulnerability to jailbreak Switch 2 and run homebrew
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Switch 2 jailbroken, can run homebrew
Researcher Sammy Hajhamid exploited a 32-bit integer overflow vulnerability in SmileBasic 4 to jailbreak the Switch 2 and demonstrated running homebrew. Using OpenAI's Codex to probe the SmileBasic interpreter, he spent two weeks discovering the vulnerability, thereby gaining arbitrary read/write access. SmileBasic 4 has been removed from the Switch eShop, and the vulnerability may be fixed in a subsequent firmware update.