Hello, Just from reading the the title here this is “just” a local root exploit e.g you first need to run a malicious app before this can affect you. If you can find more information on the bug this would be nice.
“MediaTek explained that the vulnerability stems from a debug feature that the chip-maker said smartphone manufacturers should have disabled before shipping the devices and told that that the vulnerability exists on devices running Android 4.4 KitKat.”
“We are aware of this issue and it has been reviewed by MediaTek’s security team. It was mainly found in devices running Android 4.4 KitKat, due to a de-bug feature created for telecommunication inter-operability testing in China.”Source: techlog360.com
Can someone with the old FP-ROM quickly check it? Should be easy.