DSiWare VulnList

This lists DSiWare that might have vulnerabilities, like strcpy or sprintf from savedata. If you know of DSiWare that has English-only string(high-scores, player name, high-scores that use username from system settings, etc) input, mention it on IRC EFNet #dsidev. Or contact yellowstar 6 at gmail dot com. Before you contact anyone about your dsiware, please make sure your dsiware is _not_ listed on this page anywhere. Don't bother if all you care about is warez and don't care at all about homebrew: DSiWareHax SD card loader will never load warez directly, only homebrew.

It would be nice to target DSiWare that are listed under the DSi Shop most popular search: Nintendo would have a lot of difficultly removing DSiWare from that list without ticking off a lot of non-homebrewer customers. Targets not on that list will suffer the same fate as Sudoku,(removed quickly and patched eventually) if exploits for those were released.

DSiWare savedata is extracted and modified with these tools: https://github.com/neimod/dsi save_extract and save_adjust both require sd_key, but we will not redistribute this key.

For these lists status "None" means code reversing engineering for the DSiWare wasn't started. Status "Started" means code reversing engineering for that DSiWare was started. Status "Done" means code reverse engineering was finished.

Total listed DSiWare

Total DSiWare in below lists.

List	Total
Incomplete	21
Done	17
DSiWare which probably aren't exploitable	59
Already have	3
All total	100

DSiWare with incomplete analysis

Name	Input type(s)	Status	Description
Academy: Tic-Tac-Toe	Player name	None	Has an UCS-2 player name. It's unlikely this can be exploited, seems to crash /w out-of-bounds array-index.
Advanced Circuits	Profile names	Started	Save slots are obfuscated, the algorithm is understood for all but the first save slot. The checksum calculation is unknown.
Arcade Bowling	High-Scores	None	The checksum seemed to be identical to arcade hoops, but when save modification was attempted the game appeared to reset the high-scores?
Art Academy: First Semester	None?	None	Has some ASCII strings in savedata, but they seem to be from the game binary not user input?
Bejeweled Twist	High-scores	None	Checksum is unknown, save has ASCII strings.
Bounce & Break	High-scores	Started	Has ASCII high-scores. It's unlikely this can be exploited, seems to crash /w out-of-bounds array-index.
Card games	Player name	None	Has ASCII player names, checksum is unknown.
Chess Challenge	Profile names	None	Has ASCII strings. It's unlikely this can be exploited, seems to crash /w out-of-bounds array-index.
Crazy Sudoku	Player name	None	Has ASCII strings for player name.
Crystal Monsters	Player name	Started	Has ASCII player name. Not sure if this can be exploited somehow, it crashes /w array-index out-of-bounds fail.
Elemental Masters	Player name?	None	Has ASCII strings but the checksum is unknown.
Faceez	Player name?	None	Has ASCII string but the checksum is unknown.
Field Runners	High-Scores	Started	The xml .plist the game uses for storing savedata contains high-scores strings.
Frogger Returns	High-Scores	Started	Has ASCII high-scores.
Guitar Rock Tour	High-Scores	Started	Has ASCII high-scores.
Legends of Exidia	Player name	Started	Has ASCII player name.
Lets golf	Player name	None	Has ASCII player name checksum is unknown.
Mixed Messages	Player name and other text	None	Uses ASCII for player name and other text input, but the checksum is unknown.
Number Battle	Player name	None	Uses ASCII strings, the value of each char is - 0x20 of the actual ASCII value. The checksum is unknown.
Pop Superstar: Road to celebrity	Player name	None	Has ASCII strings.
UNO	Player name and high-scores	Started	Has ASCII text. It's unlikely this can be exploited, seems to crash /w out-of-bounds array-index.

DSiWare with finished analysis

Name	Input type(s)	Description
5 in 1 Solitaire	Profile names	Game didn't crash with a long profile string.
Airport Mania: Non Stop Flights	High-Scores	Has ASCII high-scores with null terminated strings. string bugs only corrupted the display, making the game unplayable.
Arcade Hoops Basketball	High-Scores, names via settings	Has ASCII high-scores with null terminated strings, no string bugs.
Army Defender	High-scores	Has ASCII strings for high-scores, game didn't crash with modified high-scores.
Bloons	Profile names	Has some profile names but they're all in one tiny savfile.
Bookworm	High-scores and word list	Has ASCII null-terminated high-score list names and null-terminated word list strings. ( No crash, just nice very high scores, and very long words displayed. )
Dark Void Zero	High-Scores	No limit on length of drawn record names, no vuln with high-scores. Although this game can be crashed it isn't exploitable.
Digger Dan & Kaboom	Player name	Save has ASCII playername, but there's <10KB free in the savimage anyway.
Dracula	No manual input	Savedata contains ASCII high-scores from DSi username, and ASCII perks/powerups. High-scores doesn't have string bugs.
Escapee Go	None	Has high-scores without names, scores are ASCII null-terminated strings. Managed to semi-crash this, but system reset still worked so this probably isn't exploitable.
Mario Calculator	None	No savedata at all in the tad.
Paul's Shooting Adventure	High-Scores	Records are entered when you complete the game, names are ASCII strings null-terminated. Not exploitable.
Prehistorik Man	Password text	Has some ASCII password text for continuing, but there's less than 10KB free.
Primrose	High-scores	Has English-only high-scores and a trivial checksum, not exploitable.
Soul of Darkness	Player name	Has ASCII player name with 3 profiles.
Sudoku	Player name	Has ASCII player name for each of the 3 save slots. Game was crashed with an excessively long player name. The game has already been exploited through Sudokuhax.
Rayman	Player name	No overflow, with a long string the game only displays one extra character.

DSiWare that probably don't have vulnerabilities

Name	Input type(s)	Description
24/7 Solitaire	None	No high-scores or string input.
Absolute Reversi	None	No strings in savedata.
A Little Bit of... All-Time Classics: Card Classics	None	No strings
A Little Bit of... All-Time Classics: Family Games	None	No strings
A Little Bit of... All-Time Classics: Strategy Games	None	No strings
Alpha Bounce	None	No strings
Asphalt 4	None	No strings
Aquia: Art Style Series	None	No strings
Aura Aura Climber	None	No strings
Birds & Beans	No strings	No strings in savedata.
Boom Boom Squaries	No strings	No strings in savedata.
Bomberman Blitz	Name	Has UCS-2 strings.
Boxlife	None	No strings.
Blackjack	None	No strings.
Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters	None	No strings in savedata.
Brain Age Express: Math	None	No strings in savedata.
Brain Drain	None	No strings in save.
Castle of Magic	None	No strings
Cave Story	None	No strings
Countdown Calender	None	No user strings. There's many "ANIV" tokens in the save and some embedded bmp files.
Crash Course Domo	None	No strings.
Chronos Twins	None	No strings.
Dictionary 6 in 1	None	No strings in savedata.
DIGIDRIVE: Art Style Series	None	No strings.
DodoGo! Robo	None	No strings
Dr. Mario Express	None	No strings.
Earthworm Jim	None	No strings.
Extreme Hangman	None	No strings in savedata.
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ	None	No strings
FIZZ	High-scores	Savedata contains ASCII high-scores, but all the high-scores are contained in the same string without a null terminator. A vuln is unlikely.
Flipper	None	No strings.
Frenzic	High-scores	Has UCS-2 high-scores.
Gene Labs	None	Small savedata with no strings.
Glory Days - Tactical Defense	No strings	Saves only scores not strings.
GO Series: 10 Second Run	None	No strings.
Metal Torrent	Player name	Uses a UCS-2 string.
Master of Illusion Express: Psychic Camera	None	Tiny savfile no strings.
My Notebook: Blue	None	No strings.
My Notebook: Pearl	None	No strings.
My Sims: Camera	None	No strings.
Mighty Flip Champs	None	No strings.
My Exotic Farm	Player name	Not exploitable, there's a 0x01 byte immediately after the string not null-terminated.
Paper Airplane Chase	None	The size of both files in the savedata are only 8 bytes, no strings.
PiCOPiCT: Art Style series	None	No strings.
PiCTOBiTS: Art Style series	None	No strings.
Plants Vs. Zombies	None	No strings, uses system user name for player name.
Pop Island	None	No strings.
Pyoro	None	16-byte savedata no strings.
Photo Clock	None	Small savedata, no strings at all.
Photo Dojo	Handwritten character name via stylus	Savedata only contains .jpg files and some tiny "save"/"info" files.
Shantae: Risky's Revenge	None	Has 3 save slots but no string input.
Simply Minesweeper	None	No strings.
Sokomania	None	No strings.
Sparkle Snapshots	None	No strings.
Starship Defense	None	No strings.
Tetris Party Live	None	Zero text input.
WarioWare: Snapped	None	No high-scores or string input.
ZENGAGE: Art Style Series	None	No strings.
Zenonia	None	No strings.

DSiWare that were already obtained for analysis

Do not contact us about the DSiWare in this list, we already have them. We had these for ages, and never managed to find any vulns.

Name	Text format
Flipnote Studio	UCS-2
Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again	UCS-2
Opera	Nothing interesting in savedata.