Samsung smartphones and tablets vulnerable to kernel attack

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*Opens the window and throws his GNote out. Update: 5 min later police arrests him with charge of murder attempt by throwing brick-like object to a passing pedestrian's head.
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only Samsung is vulnerable ?
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only Samsung is vulnerable ?
Yep. The vulnerability itself is software patchable, because the point of vulnerability isn't actually the Exynos CPU itself, but rather the custom kernel Samsung used IIRC. One of the prominent XDA devs, Chainfire, has already made a quick fix for it. God knows when Samsung would officially patch it, though.
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Does it help to run an SGS3 on WiFi only? 🙁
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Does it help to run an SGS3 on WiFi only? 🙁
It's not a remote exploit - you need an installed piece of software capable of reading and writing to the hidden memory partition. So most likely you're fine and you'll be fine.
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Many thanks, Ven0m and Andres, for those reassuring words. 🙂