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In Geohot fashion this has an accompanying domain: http://towelroot.com/ http://towelroot.com/ Towelroot uses the Futex vuln disclosed June 2, 2014. There's be
by aroch 12y ago
In Geohot fashion this has an accompanying domain: http://towelroot.com/ http://towelroot.com/
Towelroot uses the Futex vuln disclosed June 2, 2014. There's been a running bet on who would be the first to roll this bug into a one-click root for Android
- 0x0 12y agoRight, I was just going to post that -- it's CVE-2014-3153, why is the article claiming "Towelroot is based on an hardware exploit, so it could not be fixed with a software update."? Edit: this looks like a pretty bad vulnerability for samsung owners (or all android devices with an unpatched kernel) - any app could silently root your phone?
- jwise0 12y agoYeah, the original link appears to be blog spam. If you want to see a lot of people cheerlead, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783157 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783157 is the XDA forums link.