[Vibrant Android Development] lightninbug:
I did copy this from the Epic 4G forums...EVERYONE SHOULD READ!!! And DEVS maybe implement the fix in future ROMS. NOTHING IS ATTACHED TO THIS POST!! SEE OP FOR ALL INFO!! ---->http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=977154

Who is affected? All phones pre-gingerbread

Who should act? Users and developers using pre-gingerbread roms

How do I fix? Flash attached .zip at the bottom of this post or use one of the alternate methods down there

What if I think I was infected? Completely wipe your device, format sdard, go back to stock and re-apply rom, then flash the attached .zip (before installing any apps)

Why should I care? read below...

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03...open-backdoor/

Link to publishers apps here. I just randomly stumbled into one of the apps, recognized it and noticed that the publisher wasn’t who it was supposed to be.

Super Guitar Solo for example is originally Guitar Solo Lite. I downloaded two of the apps and extracted the APK’s, they both contain what seems to be the "rageagainstthecage" root exploit – binary contains string "CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C". Don’t know what the apps actually do, but can’t be good.

I appreciate being able to publish an update to an app and the update going live instantly, but this is a bit scary. Some sort of moderation, or at least quicker reaction to malware complaints would be nice.

EDIT: After some dexing and jaxing, the apps seem to be at least posting the IMEI and IMSI codes to http://184.105.245.17:8080/GMServer/GMServlet, which seems to be located in Fremont, CA.

I asked our resident hacker to take a look at the code himself, and he’s verified it does indeed root the user’s device via rageagainstthecage or exploid. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg: it does more than just yank IMEI and IMSI. There’s another APK hidden inside the code, and it steals nearly everything it can: product ID, model, partner (provider?), language, country, and userID. But that’s all child’s play; the true pièce de résistance is that it has the ability to download more code. In other words, there’s no way to know what the app does after it’s installed, and the possibilities are nearly endless.

The offending apps from publisher Myournet:

* Falling Down

* Super Guitar Solo

* Super History Eraser

* Photo Editor

* Super Ringtone Maker

* Super Sex Positions

* Hot Sexy Videos

* Chess

* 下坠滚球_Falldown

* Hilton Sex Sound

* Screaming Sexy Japanese Girls

* Falling Ball Dodge

* Scientific Calculator

* Dice Roller

* 躲避弹球

* Advanced Currency Converter

* App Uninstaller

* 几何战机_PewPew

* Funny Paint

* Spider Man

* 蜘蛛侠

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03...-more-details/

Now, on to some more details of the virus. We should point out that this vulnerability was patched with Gingerbread, meaning any device running Android 2.3+ should be fine. In other words, if you’re looking to play the blame game (which I’m not, but having read all the comments on the original post, many people are), then there’s plenty to go around. The hole was fixed by Google, but it’s relatively useless since many phones aren’t yet running a version of Android that is protected. It’s noteworthy that some manufacturers released updates that patched the exploit for devices without updating to Gingerbread; unfortunately, it appears that minority is quite a small one.

Perhaps most important is the question of what infected users can do about their situation; unfortunately, the answer is not much of anything. Because the virus opens up a backdoor and can bring in new code at any time, the only way to really rid an infected device of any damage is to completely wipe the device – not exactly the optimal solution, but it looks like the only one available, at least for now.

Finally, Justin notes that ROM developers working with pre-Gingerbread versions of Android can prevent the virus from backdooring in code by putting a dummy file at /system/bin/profile.

As you can see androidpolice.com reports on this backdoor and roots and steals personal information. The apps are removed from the market but that doesn't mean they got them all. Attached is a flashable fix as suggested by androidpolice.com

So users can flash this .zip or simply create a blank file called profile and place it in /system/bin/ (developers are encouraged to include this file in future releases. A blank file is not going to affect performance at all)

Alternate methods:

Using 'adb shell' or terminal emulator (should work on any phone) as suggest by xaueious here

Code:

$ su

su

# remount rw

Remounting /system (/dev/stl9) in read/write mode

# touch /system/bin/profile

# chmod 644 /system/bin/profile

#

Alternate 2:

Download blank profile file from here (or create one and name it profile)

Use a program like Root Explorer to copy it to /system/bin/

Then longpress on it and check the permissions should be read/write for user, read for group, and read for others.

Alternate 3:

cyansmoker has put together an apk for the patch here https://market.android.com/details?id=com.voilaweb.mobile.droiddreamkiller

Thanks for pointing this out photoframd and androidpolice.com for investigating and reporting!

UPDATE: I renamed the .zip file and reuploaded it (350 hits wow). Also in the edify scripted version I added 644 permissions to the file (but if you already flashed it then it should have defaulted to that). I also added a pre-edify version of the patch thanks to xaueious for people using a recovery that does not yet understand edify.