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Three year old privilege escalation bug compromises millions of Android phones
- lorenzhs 11y agoMost Android phones still use Linux 3.4, according to the article the bug was introduced in 3.8.
- on_and_off 11y agoand in order to be vulnerable, you need to change the default keyring settings. Nexus devices for example are unaffected since they have the right configuration. It is unclear how many Android devices, if any, are affected. Not to mention that a lot of computation is necessary in order to exploit this bug ...