The 2013 Pwnie Nominee For Best Privilege Escalation Bug

Motorola TrustZone array OOB write (CVE-2013-3051)

Credit: Dan Rosenberg

Dan Rosenberg exploited a bug in Motorola’s TrustZone kernel on all of Motorola’s Qualcomm-based Android devices allowing their boot-loaders to be irreversibly unlocked.

(CVE-2013-3051)