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Back Door found in Allwinner Kernels
BuildTheRobots
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Shocked  05-11-2016, 08:41 AM
Don't have my board available to test, but does anyone know if this issue effects the Pine64 linux (and potentially android) images?

Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/09/..._backdoor/

also comments on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11672590


tldr: if `/proc/sunxi_debug/sunxi_debug` exists, try writing "rootmydevice" to it - the process that does gets root.
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Back Door found in Allwinner Kernels - by BuildTheRobots - 05-11-2016, 08:41 AM

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