Rooting Guide for LG webOS Emulator

This guide is for the emulator, NOT for the real TV. To root a real webOS TV, see crashd method or rootmy.tv instead.

Prerequisites

• VirtualBox
• Emulator Image (Archive)
• Linux x86 LiveCD (Something like GParted is good enough)
• OpenSSH Client

Rooting

For webOS Emulator 1.2.0

Vulnerbility used: /home/root/mount-encrypted.sh can be used to execute arbitrary commands as root.

For webOS Emulator 2.0.0

Vulnerability used: /dev/hda4 is mounted without nosuid option. It will be mounted on /media/developer/.

For webOS Emulator 3.0.0

Vulnerability used: /dev/hda4 is mounted without nosuid option. It will be mounted on /mnt/lg/appstore/.

For webOS Emulator 4.0.0

Vulnerbility used: /dev/hda2 is mounted without nosuid option. It will be mounted on /.