How to compile xpwn on Debian Etch

While performing forensic testing on an 3G iPhone using the techniques outlined by Jonathan Zdziarski in his book “iPhone Forensics“, I discovered the xpwn tool (by planetbeing) pre-compiled for OS X was not up to date (missing many of the firmware bundles which contain the encryption key and initialization vectors to uncompress the RAM disk .dmg images). I switched over to the Linux workstation however the Linux pre-compiled binaries of xpwn complained about my version of GLIBC with the following error:

/home/ahoog/src/XPwn-0.5.5-Linux.broke/xpwntool: /lib32/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4′ not found (required by /home/ahoog/src/XPwn-0.5.5-Linux.broke/xpwntool)

So I figured I would just build from source. Planetbeing was nice enough to write up build directions however for my Debian Etch, I had to do a few different things to get it to compile and work. Below are the steps I took to make everything work, adapted from Planetbeing’s direction:

1. apt-get install build-essential
2. apt-get install libz-dev libusb-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libpng12-dev (changes from planetbeing’s BUILD doc listed below)
   • libssl-dev instead of libcrypt-dev
   • libbz2-dev instead of libbz2-dev3
   • added libpng12-dev
3. Install git-core and associated files to download the source (GitHub kept failing with a 404 when trying to download from the website link)
   • apt-get install git-core git-arch git-cvs git-svn git-email git-daemon-run gitk gitweb cogito git-doc rsync curl
4. git clone git://github.com/planetbeing/xpwn.git
5. install cmake (per BUILD)
   • wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz
   • tar zxvf cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz
   • cd cmake-2.6.2
   • ./configure
   • make
   • sudo make install
6. Create and cd to build folder
7. cmake ~/xpwn
8. make
9. make package
10. executables and files located in ~/build/_CPack_Packages/Linux/TBZ2/XPwn-0.5.5-Linux

Hope this helps Debian/iPhone folks out.