Heard about Dirty Cow on the radio this morning. Will FP1 with the update to KitKat be protected against this Dirty Cow?

Despite its issues with software FP has proven quite reactive with security fixes overtime. Also the patch itself (this is an example of a linux kernel being patched for dirtyCOW) is pretty simple so it should not pose too many issues. Also, don’t worry too much about it for now, this exploit is im…

As sysadmin I found my Redhat servers and desktops having restarted overnight due to automatic kernel patch for dirty cow. I read that only local users may “profit” from any exploits. Question: Am I the only local user on my android ?

[image] anon9505190: Question: Am I the only local user on my android ? Each Android app runs in its own dedicated UNIX user.

Thanks @Roboe , maybe I was guessing this, but are all different app users really local users in the sense of dirty cow ?

I don’t know if there’s any difference, I just wanted to give some (I think useful) info, :slight_smile:

Today I have read that dirty cow and rawhammer have been found harmfull for android . With a new name “Drammer” especially for samsung’s galaxy devices including nexus the effects on ARM are the same as for INTEL platforms including rooting . ( german magazin Heise’s Security forum) @Roboe : I shall…

More on this . I must admit I fail to see how a reliable software solution to this could be made that does not impact performance greatly.

Quoting the link you posted: I might be ignorant, but since FP1s are rooted by default… It all comes down to not installing malicious apps, doesn’t it? So the only way to protect yourself is following these tips for improved security , am I wrong?

[image] Stefan: but since FP1s are rooted by default… “User root” is not the class of root access the vulnerability achieves: In “user root”, root access are derived to a proxy, a root manager (apps like SuperSU, Superuser, etc), requires the user to accept that permission (which is automat…

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