Black. Berry Play. Book OS update patches the Dingleberry root exploit. Less than a day after a group of independent developers released the first tool for gaining root access to the Black. Berry Play. Book, Research in Motion has released a security update that patches the hole the Dingleberry tool uses to root a Play. Book. Rooting the tablet gives users access to escalated privileges, which lets you do nifty things like installing the Android Market on the Black. Berry tablet. But in order to gain root access, hackers had to find a security hole to exploit. In this case, the hole they found wasn’t really all that dangerous. In order to root your tablet (or do something more malicious), someone would have to have physical access to your device. The exploit can’t be accessed remotely. Instead, it occurs when you transfer files over a USB connection from a computer running Black. Berry Desktop software. RIM acknowledges that the exploit represents a low security risk, but the company’s in the business of making devices for enterprise users, so any security hole is a big deal. The good news is that one of the developers behind Dingle. Berry says even if you upgrade to the latest, most secure version of Black. Berry Tablet OS, you can always downgrade. If you’re running Black. Berry Tablet OS 2. BlackBerry PlayBook update disables dingleberry root. RIM announced that it would be investigating the exploit and releasing a patch to. Wade shows the DingleBerry tool allowing the PlayBook to access the Internet video. The Dingleberry PlayBook root team has been. Latest PlayBook OS 2.0 Beta Does Not Patch Dingleberry. BerryReview is in no way affiliated with.
I suspect the security fix will be rolled into OS 2. Update: RIM has released an updated version of OS 2.
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