Geohot’s newly released app for rooting Android devices, Towelroot, leverages a Linux vulnerability in the futex subsystem. Identified as CVE-2014-3153, the security flaw affects the Linux kernel through 3.14.5 and allows administrator privilege through a FUTEX_REQUEUE command. Linux has been patched against this issue, but vulnerable versions are powering many Android devices on the market, […]
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