No, Android doesn’t have suid binaries to exploit like in the PoC | Hacker News

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akdev1l 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Copy Fail

No, Android doesn’t have suid binaries to exploit like in the PoC

tardedmeme 4 months ago [–]

The vulnerability can also be used on any binary that is already running as root and you can open for reading. So yes, any android app can now escalate to root if android has the vulnerable module.

userbinator 4 months ago | [–]

Unfortunately another comment thread here says that it doesn't.

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