Slow and steady

We are slowly progressing through all possibilities on the incredible root process. It’s just pretty decently well done, no simple mistakes we could take advantage of like the evo. A kernel exploit may prove to be the only way here, and we do have progress toward that end, but would like to find another way in. While I’d rather not point directly to what we are persuing, I will point out what we know won’t work:

1) Previous exploits of course are long since patched. This is to be expected.

2) installd is pretty darn nicely done. I’ve spent a good while digging through it and I can tell ya it checks for directory traversal’s, uid/gid escalations, and drops privs before any shell work. In short, I don’t think we’re getting anywhere with this.

More to come…

This entry was written by shadowmite , posted on Saturday May 29 2010at 04:05 pm , filed under News and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

4 Responses to “Slow and steady”

  • IPvFletch says:

    Did you try other permutations of said attacks – most notable directory traversals? For example, I18N, Unicode, and ASCII/HEX variants, for example?

  • ***Fox*** says:

    Jake Day and Boostdscoob have achieved root. check out ninebysix,alldroid or xda. it is a good day:)

  • invisiblek says:

    you guys can do it! keep up the good work! thanks!

  • andrew says:

    WE NEED DA REWTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!