A security vulnerability affecting Samsung devices has recently been discovered by members of the XDA Developers forum. According to the information posted on the forum, all Samsung devices with an Exynos chip may be affected by this including the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note 10.1 and others.
It is a kernel vulnerability that provides attackers with root and read and write access to all physical memory. If that would not be bad enough, it can be exploited by malicious apps that get installed via Google’s Play store or by sideloading them to the device. No root or modification is necessary for this to happen, which effectively means that any specifically prepared application can exploit the vulnerability on affected phones[...]
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It is a kernel vulnerability that provides attackers with root and read and write access to all physical memory. If that would not be bad enough, it can be exploited by malicious apps that get installed via Google’s Play store or by sideloading them to the device. No root or modification is necessary for this to happen, which effectively means that any specifically prepared application can exploit the vulnerability on affected phones[...]
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