The NeoTV is a set top box built by Netgear to compete with the likes of Roku. It streams video from the usual Internet sources like Netflix, Hulu Plus, and YouTube. [Craig] recently cracked his unit open, and in the process discovered that the NeoTV can be rooted using nothing but the remote control.
He starts with a hardware overview. The box houses a single-board ARM design with a 128MB of NAND and 256MB of RAM. The serial port is easy to find, but it does not provide a root shell (which often is one of the easiest ways to root a device). He next turns to poking around the unencrypted firmware update to see what he can learn. That’s how he discovered that the SSID value when connecting to WiFi is fed into a system() command. This glaring security hole lets you run just about anything you want on the device by issuing commands as fake SSID names. It’s just a matter of a little Linux know-how and [Craig] now has root access on his device.
_LOL_
Very impressed.
Wow… Now the question is how does the netflix streamer work and can we port it to other systems.
Good one-almost missed it ;)
hehe
i am trying to download Kodi to my netgear box wheren do i insert it in im a noob bad “echo cd / mnt/ubi_boot>/tmp/a'”
Was thinking the same thing. I can haz netflix?
Almost as bad as when android piped all keyboard input to a root shell!
This guy won. I’m really impressed.
LMAO! There’s a prank to pull if you know your neighbor likes to steal WiFi and has one of these NeoTV boxes!
Are you telling us that you can just set up a wireless router that’s not connected to anything, call it “rm -rf /*” and that’ll work?
If your neighbor tried to connect their NeoTV to your maliciously named access point, then yes. Don’t forget the backticks. :)
But you would have to pass a command to get root first before rm would work on /
All commands injected via the SSID are executed as root, so you don’t have to do anything to get root – you already are. :)
This is hilariously legendary.
So how hard would xbmc be to get on ntv300?
How can I root the neotv prime
How can I put xbmc on neotv prime any body knows please help
Still no answer how can I put xbmc on neotv prime step by step please help
I am a noon but I do have a ntv300. I read in some forums that firmware update 1.0.68 mistakenly added dlna capabilities. Would I be able to access that using this?
how to put xbmc in to neotv max streaming player?