An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
Posted Jan 20, 2016 5:40 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability by BenHutchings
Parent article: An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
Posted Jan 20, 2016 9:55 UTC (Wed)
by tao (subscriber, #17563)
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Posted Jan 20, 2016 16:33 UTC (Wed)
by flussence (guest, #85566)
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Posted Jan 21, 2016 12:29 UTC (Thu)
by nye (subscriber, #51576)
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Lucky you! Samsung's current mid-range phone is still the S5 Mini, since they decided for whatever reason not to make an S6 Mini, and it's a fairly safe bet that that will never be updated to Android 5 outside of a handful of select markets (all with slightly different models, so it's not clear how safe it would be to apply an update for another region even if you wanted to).
This is a phone that they're not only still selling new, but have no newer model in its market segment.
>it runs kernel 3.0.
That's pretty weird though, given that 3.0 was the kernel used for Android 4.1, several releases earlier than 5. The fact that they've gone out of their way to give you an extra special old kernel version probably implies that some out of tree driver has never been updated, so the device may well be stuck on that kernel version for evermore(?)
Posted Feb 1, 2016 14:18 UTC (Mon)
by nye (subscriber, #51576)
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I take it all back! Samsung, I have unfairly maligned you!
This Friday, a couple of weeks after I'd finally given up hope - and a few months after the last peep from Samsung on the topic - suddenly the 5.1 update appeared out of the blue.
Posted Feb 1, 2016 21:08 UTC (Mon)
by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
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On samsung.com there is no indication that the S5 Mini even exists.
Posted Feb 1, 2016 23:18 UTC (Mon)
by johannbg (guest, #65743)
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Just do what the rest of the world has started to do since the market is beginning to be saturated and ditch Samsung and other vendors that have crappy update/upgrade policy and custom un-installable bandwith and battery draining bloatware.
The only reliable update/upgrade source is Google and with 2016 being the year of the Snapdragon 820 Processor then the next Nexus line up should be powered by those ( unless Google has gone off the rail ) and you should be good for next 3 - 5 years with those devices OS and Technology wise.
Posted Feb 4, 2016 15:10 UTC (Thu)
by nye (subscriber, #51576)
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Nothing better than johannbg posted, sorry - it just announced that there was an update available one day.
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability
An unpleasant local kernel vulnerability