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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
The PlayStation Vita has a few apps for displaying various media formats. | The PlayStation Vita has a few apps for displaying various media formats. | ||
primarily the Photos, Videos, and Music applications, you can load images into these apps | primarily the Photos, Videos, and Music applications, you can load images into these apps | ||
media files require "promotion" to be put into these apps | media files require "promotion" to be put into these apps | ||
basically each of the media apps has a sqllite3 database called 'avcontent.db' inside ux0 | basically each of the media apps has a sqllite3 database called 'avcontent.db' inside various folders on ux0 which cache the contents of these apps. | ||
== Arbitrary Delete == | == Arbitrary Delete == | ||
By editing the avcontent.db you can change the path of any media contents to be whatever path you want | |||
if you then delete it inside the app, it will not only delete the entry from the database, but it will delete that underlying file as well. | |||
By editing the | |||
if you then delete it inside the | |||
but it will delete that underlying file as well. | |||
== Arbitrary Read == | == Arbitrary Read == | ||
Using the videos app i was able to read arbitrary files by changing the path in the avcontent.db, | |||
and then copying it with CMA, however this only worked with files inside ux0: | |||
files outside there would not work, i am not sure why. | |||
Using the | |||
and then copying it with CMA, however this only worked with files inside ux0: | |||
files outside there would not work | |||
== Exploitation == | == Exploitation == | ||
Ultimately this trick is kinda useless, it requires having access to the memory card to write a hacked avcontent.db in the first place, which if you had you can delete whatever you want anyway? | Ultimately this trick is kinda useless, it requires having access to the memory card to write a hacked avcontent.db in the first place, which if you had you can delete whatever you want anyway? | ||
(it could also be done with CMA i guess), so it'd only be useful for removing files from say ur0) | (it could also be done with CMA i guess), so it'd only be useful for removing files from say ur0. or ones you cant do via backups / restore | ||
or with another hacked vita) but at that point you may as well just delete the file you want from the memory card using that, | |||
an interesting idea is to setup a SQL Trigger on delete to automatically put the entry back into the database, this way you could delete any file over and over again. | an interesting idea is to setup a SQL Trigger on delete to automatically put the entry back into the database, this way you could delete any file over and over again. | ||
this could be used to make a sort of 'unlink memory card' feature, that works even without hacks. but by the time i had this idea, there was already h-encore2.. | this could be used to make a sort of 'unlink memory card' feature, that works even without hacks. but by the time i had this idea, there was already h-encore2.. | ||