A suspected fault in how Samsung Electronics has implemented the Android's kernel in several of its devices could allow a malicious application to gain total control over the device.
The vulnerability was described on Saturday by the user "alephzain" on XDA Developers, a forum for mobile developers. It affects devices using the Exynos processor models 4210 and 4412. Alephzain wrote that the issue was a "huge mistake."
By Sunday, another developer on the forum,
Chainfire,
had posted an Android application package (.apk) file that will successfully exploit the vulnerability.
