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by bana-io 19 days ago
So I took the risk and ran it on a Samsung S26 Ultra - I will confirm the full details once I have `adb` installed and running.

The exploit/POC (call it what you want) ran or appeared to have executed because:

1. I saw output on the Firefox tab when I navigated to <https://rootme.nebusec.io/b9e3f1a4-7c82-4d6e-9a51-2f8c4b3e0d...>.

2. I saw some output from the execution of the POC.

However, after I went to <https://rootme.nebusec.io/b9e3f1a4-7c82-4d6e-9a51-2f8c4b3e0d...> the phone froze and refused to respond to any input. The only thing that worked was restarting, which I wonder how it works given the, I think, the kernel has hung. Does anyone know how the kernel is able to respond to events whilst the system has hung? The screen remains on with the partial output of the execution of the POC until the screen saver kicks in ...

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The kernel is not a single-threaded process - a "kernel hang" is not a very specific description and you don't have a way to know that it happened anyway. The screen timing out is evidence that the kernel was largely working, actually. Of course if some data structure got corrupted it could have affected a specific essential part of the system, such as the touchscreen driver or the display compositor.
I've created an issue in GitHub, please see https://github.com/NebuSec/CyberMeowfia/issues/46 (Samsung SM-S948B (S26 Ultra)).

It would be nice to get a `Dockerfile` to build the exploit/POC.