Security researcher publishes proof-of-concept code for recent Android zero-day

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Qu1ckR00t app can root an Android device using the CVE-2019-2215 zero-day.
A US security researcher has published proof-of-concept code on GitHub for a recently disclosed Android zero-day.
The zero-day was discovered at the start of this month by Google Project Zero security researchers. At the time, Google said the zero-day was being actively exploited in the wild.
When it disclosed the zero-day (tracked as CVE-2019-2215), Google security researcher Maddie Stone also published proof-of-concept (PoC) code, but her code only granted read/write access to the kernel.
 

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