Google Play to write Kernel

Amidst the XDA community’s mission quest to root every Android devices as it come across, one forum user appears to have found an serious hole that affects the Exynos devices. While making fun of his Samsung Galaxy SIII, XDA user named Alephzain makes a discovery that you can root without the use of Odin for flashing. By default, the Samsung kernel allows read/write access to the physical memory on the device that includes the kernel also. This would be very easy for rooting, Alephzain writes it but leaving the device vulnerability for attack – allowing to Kernel code injection and RAM dumps from malware attacks apps’ from the Google Play store.

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