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World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones

World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones

Posted Dec 17, 2012 17:43 UTC (Mon) by dpquigl (subscriber, #52852)
In reply to: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones by Cyberax
Parent article: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones

Actually it wasn't administrative privileges. Write access to /Device/PhysicalMemory has be exclusively given to the system user and no other user. Now you could add that its trivial to schedule something to run as system if you're administrator but if you're already the administrator what are you messing around with physical memory for. Just install a kernel driver and be done with it.


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