Android enthusiast Stephen Bird claims that he has found a method to gain root access on Motorolaâs latest Droid X smartphone. Bird said that he had ported an exploit for the Motorola Milestone, which was recently released by developer Sebastian Krahmer.The exploit helped him to cash in on Android drawback, which resembles a privilege escalation vulnerability, found by Krahmer in 2009. The developer briefly divulged how he hacked in a little message to Google's engineers. Krahmer explained the hack in a document which he now offers with the exploit code."For the Google Engineers: The vulnerability is inside init, perfectly porting old udev's CVE-2009-1185," he wrote. "Exploitation sounds easy therefore but only the experienced will recognize its beauty."
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