Team ICE and SorroW have released a “overflow.tiff” exploit today which is confirmed working on PS3 firmwares up to 2.10 on BOTH PAL and NTSC consoles.

At the moment the TIFF file freezes the PS3 via “heap overflow” (not buffer overflow), but by knowing the “backend number and making the right calls” it is possible to inject a simple code.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news!

http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?t=2800

Team Ice is having great news for us.

Read on here:

First we found an exploit to run SELF files in gameos. Then we coded an application which converts ELF files into runable SELF files. We can load these with our exploit. The coding is not finished, we still have to clean the code, that we will get an screen output. The SELF files are running, but screen doesnt show this atm. When this is fixed we could release a “hello world”.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://www.dev-ice.eu/releases/index.html

Softpedia are having an article how to install Ubuntu v7.10 on your Playstation 3.

Thanks to brakken / http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-7-10-on-PS3-73272.shtml

A petition has started, which might be of interest for Playstation 3 users:

We, Playstation 3 users, ask Sony to allow the use of the RSX trough Other OS.

Right now because of the PS3 firmware limitation we can’t…
- Easily watch movies in various formats
- Correctly use 2D applications
- Friendly run lite 3D applications

Useless when it comes to fight against piracy, this limitation is a trouble for honest users but not for pirates: it makes operating systems as Linux not interesting enough and this fabulous project of Other Os on PS3 seems to drown. A huge number of disappointed comments in many forums are proving this.

Dear Sony, you made us dream, please now don’t leave us alone with lost hopes.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

http://www.petitiononline.com/RSX/petition.html