BurritoRoot

Root Exploit by TeamAndIRC, released to root the Kindle Fire 6.2.1

GPL-3.0 License

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Please see the LICENSE file

BurritoRoot is a root exploit for the Kindle Fire, released to gain root on the 6.2.1 firmware. Originally licensed under a proprietary license, we re-released under the GPL due to blatant code theft by the author of 'unlockroot'. Not only is he a thief, but a moron, hell he stole the unroot code of our's that was broken.

How it all works

In /sbin/adbd is a secondary property check to see if adbD can run as root, "service.root.amazon.allow". Normally this can only be set by a system or root process.

.rodata:000203EC aService_root_0 DCB "service.root.amazon.allow",0 .rodata:000203EC ; DATA XREF: .text:0000EFECo .rodata:00020406 ALIGN 4 .rodata:00020408 a1_0 unicode 0, <1>,0 ; DATA XREF: .text:0000EFF0o .rodata:00020408 ; .text:0000F000o .rodata:0002040C aAdbdCannotRunA DCB "adbd cannot run as root in production builds",0xA,0 .rodata:0002040C ; DATA XREF: .text:0000EFF4o .rodata:0002043A ALIGN 4 .rodata:0002043C aService_adb__1 DCB "service.adb.root",0 ; DATA XREF: .text:0000EFFCo .rodata:0002044D ALIGN 0x10 .rodata:00020450 aRestartingAdbd DCB "restarting adbd as root",0xA,0 .rodata:00020450 ; DATA XREF: .text:0

In Services.jar is the BroadcastReveiver com.lab126.services.EasterEggReceiver that allows the above property to be set with a broadcast from any application.

.prologue
.line 47
if-eqz p1, :cond_0

const-string v1, "1"

move-object v0, v1

.line 49
.local v0, value:Ljava/lang/String;
:goto_0
const-string v1, "service.root.amazon.allow"

invoke-static {v1, v0}, Landroid/os/SystemProperties;->set(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)V

.line 51
return-void

.line 47
.end local v0           #value:Ljava/lang/String;
:cond_0
const-string v1, "0"

move-object v0, v1

goto :goto_0

.end method

After causing this property to be set, the user can simply do "adb root" and then adbD will run as root.

/**
 * @author jcase - Justin Case - [email protected]
 * @author TeamAndIRC - http://twitter.com/TeamAndIRC
 * 
 * Testers:
 * VashyPooh
 * Trevor Eckhart
 * 
 * Great Being of Knowledge:
 * IOMonster
 * 
 * Supporters:
 * http://AndroidPolice.com
 * http://RootzWiki.com - b16 for the graphics!
 * 
 * Copyright 2011 CunningLogic
 * This file is part of BurritoRoot.
 * 
 * BurritoRoot is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
 * GNU eneral Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of 
 * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * BurritoRoot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
 * even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Foobar. If not, see
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
 * 
 */

/**
 * The Wall Of Shame
 * 
 * Organizations and persons listed below have violated the copyright and/or licensing of BurritoRoot
 * and have had their rights to use any part or derivative of BurritoRoot revoked.
 * 
 * You are scum, you steal the hard work of our developers. You even stole my non working unroot code
 * you f*cking bum.
 * 
 * Author of unlockroot
 * http://www(dot)unlockroot(dot)com
 * Liang Bing
 * [email protected]
 * [email protected]
 * Hong  Kong
 * 
 */