Samsung Acknowledges Exynos Root Exploit

Samsung downplayed a root exploit vulnerability in some of its Exynos processors, and promised a patch for the flaw, according to a company statement acquired by AndroidCentral. The bug affects devices with Exynos 4210 and 4412 processors and was first made public by an XDA Developers forum membe...

Samsung Exynos芯片内核device /dev/exynos-mem本地权限提升漏洞

BUGTRAQ ID: 56955 Exynos是韩国三星电子基于ARM构架处理器品牌。 Samsung Exynos在内核设备/dev/exynos-mem内存在安全漏洞，此设备允许所有用户读写所有物理内存，导致攻击者获取系统的root访问权限。/dev/exynos-mem用于图形处理，例如照相机、图形内存分配、hdmi等。多个设备受到影响：Samsung Galaxy S2、Samsung Galxy Note 2、MEIZU MX、所有嵌入了exynos处理器（4210和4412）的设备。有3个库使用了/dev/exynos-mem：...

CVE-2012-6422

The kernel in Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note 2, MEIZU MX, and possibly other Android devices, when running an Exynos 4210 or 4412 processor, uses weak permissions 0666 for /dev/exynos-mem, which allows attackers to read or write arbitrary physical memory and gain privileges via a crafted...

CVE-2012-6422

The kernel in Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note 2, MEIZU MX, and possibly other Android devices, when running an Exynos 4210 or 4412 processor, uses weak permissions 0666 for /dev/exynos-mem, which allows attackers to read or write arbitrary physical memory and gain privileges via a crafted...

Code injection

The kernel in Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note 2, MEIZU MX, and possibly other Android devices, when running an Exynos 4210 or 4412 processor, uses weak permissions 0666 for /dev/exynos-mem, which allows attackers to read or write arbitrary physical memory and gain privileges via a crafted...

CVE-2012-6422

The kernel in Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note 2, MEIZU MX, and possibly other Android devices, when running an Exynos 4210 or 4412 processor, uses weak permissions 0666 for /dev/exynos-mem, which allows attackers to read or write arbitrary physical memory and gain privileges via a crafted...

CVE-2012-6422

The CVE-2012-6422 entry concerns the kernel on certain Android devices (Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note 2, MEIZU MX, and possibly others) using weak permissions (0666) on /dev/exynos-mem when running an Exynos 4210/4412, enabling an attacker to read or write arbitrary physical memory and achieve p...

Root Exploit in Devices with Samsung's Exynos Processors

An XDA Developers forum member operating under the handle alephzain has created an exploit that obtains root privileges and enables malicious application installation on the many Samsung devices that contain Exynos 4210 and 4412 processors. The list of devices that use the affected processors...

Samsung Exynos kernel exploit offer Root without Flashing

A user over at the XDA Developers Forum has gone searching through Samsung Exynos kernels and has found one whopper of an exploit. There's both good and bad news with this exploit so head down below for more details on this new found glory. This exploits affects a number of Samsung-made devices,...

Samsung Exynos kernel exploit offer Root without Flashing

A user over at the XDA Developers Forum has gone searching through Samsung Exynos kernels and has found one whopper of an exploit. There’s both good and bad news with this exploit so head down below for more details on this new found glory. This exploits affects a number of Samsung-made devices,...