Samsung’s high-end Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II smartphones, as well as other devices powered by the company’s Exynos 4210 and Exynos 4412 processors are said to be vulnerable to a kernel exploit.
An XDA-Developers forum member has discovered the flaw in these devices, and says that it allows for rooting them without the need of Odin.
“The security hole is in kernel, exactly with the device /dev/exynos-mem,” said forum member notes in a rec... (read more)