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Source? I could understand (!) `reboot` (with backticks) evaluated by mistake inside a shell script; but still reboot needs high privileges.
by practical_lem 7y ago
Source? I could understand (!) `reboot` (with backticks) evaluated by mistake inside a shell script; but still reboot needs high privileges.
- ChrisClark 7y agoYeah, it ran everything you typed as root. So open up a chat app, type return, reboot, return. Tada. I can't find some original sources, but there is a summary I found on Slashdot. https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/08/11/08/1720246/bug-in-android-passes-keystrokes-to-root-shell https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/08/11/08/1720246/bug-in-an...