Hole that allows Droid to be Rooted is being patched.

**banden** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 10:11 PM

https://review.source.android.com/#change,12807

Apparently this is the same guy that announced that the Droid could be rooted yesterday.

**breakmyfootoff** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 10:21 PM

Will this even make any difference for them to change the code in the udate since the earlier modified file is already out?

**banden** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 11:36 PM

From what I can tell, going forward, if this goes out in a patch it will prevent modified update.zip files from running on the device. So the existing method won't work after this is patched.

Really it is a security issue that people can modify these files which have root access.

My hope is that the existing roots are going to give the right people enough access to create a more secure method from the inside out instead of the outside in.

**breakmyfootoff** · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 01:22 AM

Right, I'm sure those responsible for the root knew about the patch before we did and are already in the process of providing a more secure and user friendly root method. I think once they're "in" they can do pretty much whatever they need to with the phone. Not to mention the fact that anyone that has already done the early update wont be recieving the over the air update as well.

angel12 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 04:46 PM

at the moment this is the only way to root the droid. And that fix was submitted by cyanogen, as it is a bug hole in the 2.0 source to allow that. At the moment, if that hole gets fixed, there is not another way to root afaik. Or to roll back to an older recovery image. I am working with a couple people on making a new recovery image, which hopefully we will have by the end of the weekend.

**breakmyfootoff** · #6 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 10:50 PM

SWEET! The sooner you geniuses have a good root, the sooner we start to see some cool new ROMs to try out

bornl33t · #7 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by angel12

at the moment this is the only way to root the droid. And that fix was submitted by cyanogen, as it is a bug hole in the 2.0 source to allow that. At the moment, if that hole gets fixed, there is not another way to root afaik. Or to roll back to an older recovery image. I am working with a couple people on making a new recovery image, which hopefully we will have by the end of the weekend.

A few things come to mind about this issue. From what I hear cyan only roots HTC's. This almost smells like he's sucking up to google ( possibly for a job?) and since the moto doesn't effect him he's turned it in....why else would some one do what he did?

Second of all it is defiantly a bug and could be exploited maliciously...as in an OTA virus. Again, not that I really care but it seems the "real" hackers aren't too interested in anything that isn't HTC....