[guardian-dev] Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy back-door

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Sun Mar 16 15:12:13 EDT 2014


Unforunately, their free implementation does not support audio in phone calls
yet :-/  SMS, data, and call logic apparently work though

.hc

On 03/15/2014 02:14 PM, ShootAKite at riseup.net wrote:
> 
> Here is the link to research describing how they found the the backdoor.  You 
> can download |libsec-ril.so files from github and xda-developers and open in IDA 
> Pro to see what they're talking about.
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SamsungGalaxyBackdoor
> ||4545523220DA754EBFC9F27DF75668EF61D83664 - if you don't have IDA Pro
> A
> 
> |
> On 03/14/2014 06:21 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> In case you missed this:
>>
>> "While working on Replicant, a fully free/libre version of Android, we
>> discovered that the proprietary program running on the applications processor
>> in charge of handling the communication protocol with the modem actually
>> implements a backdoor that lets the modem perform remote file I/O operations
>> on the file system."
>>
>> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-samsung-galaxy-backdoor
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
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