<story><title>Root exploit on Exynos</title><url>http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35469999#post35469999</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>This is a pretty serious security risk and it&apos;s highly recommended to make yourself immune ASAP. This is the kind of exploit that can go viral very quickly in Google Play and the results of a malicious process with root access can be very severe.&lt;p&gt;If your device is rooted, here is a very simple app that will let you toggle world-access permissions to the file and secure your device (until a true fix is released)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix/raw/master/exynosfix.apk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://github.com/Ryan-ZA/exynosfix/raw/master/exynosfix.ap...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Root exploit on Exynos</title><url>http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35469999#post35469999</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hosay123</author><text>It&apos;s painful to watch Android deal with endemic security problems that Windows began addressing over a decade ago. Note this isn&apos;t the first occurrence of crapware resulting from OS customization ending up on a few million Android devices, I remember at least one more vendor shipping a setuid root binary.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone comment on Windows 8&apos;s customization model from the manufacturer&apos;s perspective? A wild guess is that something like this is much less likely: even if a driver leaves some kernel object unsecured, access is difficult given how heavily walled off native APIs are on WinRT.</text></comment>