Thread: 5.3 Update for Paperwhite -- will it interfere with the jailbreak?
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Old 11-13-2012, 04:36 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by bhaak View Post
Amazon is shipping a heavily stripped down (and possibly modified?) old version of libfreetype.

I haven't yet looked what libfreetype is shipping with 5.3.0 but we know that the Touch 5.1.2 version labeled libfreetype.so.6.3.20 crashes when you put DejaVu Sans into /mnt/us/fonts.

KPW 5.2.0 has the same version number as 5.1.2, so it could be worth a try.
Sometimes a crash can allow remote code execution (i.e. jailbreak possibilities)... It would help to know where it goes when it crashes. Are they using ASLR (address space layout randomization)? There are defeats for ASLR, but it gets a lot more complicated...
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