Timeline for How to determine the Security Patch Level of an Android device?
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| Oct 8, 2017 at 19:44 | history | edited | Subhrajyoti Sen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 8, 2017 at 9:37 | comment | added | v6ak | It works without root. Most (maybe all) of the files in /system are publicly readable, so just running the following command does the trick: cat /system/build.prop | grep security | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 10:13 | comment | added | tardis | I cannot test it since I have no rooted android device. But it would make sense since it is a kind of security problem since every simple bad app could find out the security patch level and then only use the most easy security hole to to its bad work. | |
| Jan 9, 2017 at 11:05 | history | answered | Subhrajyoti Sen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |