init Says Yes to Anything
> init Says Yes to Anything: Wildcard Property Triggers Honeywell CT47 init.rc services fire on on property:...=* — any value, no validation, root context frankSx · frankhacks.blogspot.com · severity: MEDIUM In Android, on property:name=value triggers exist so init can react to state changes. The value is supposed to be a sentinel — a specific string that means "do the thing." Honeywell's logger stack declared four of them with a wildcard: on property:persist.vendor.hsm.kerdynalog.requestcmd=* → hxlogger_kerdynalog (user root) on property:persist.vendor.hsm.ramoops.requestcmd=* → ramoops dump service (root) on property:persist.vendor.hsm.logdumpd.filepath=* → hxlogger_logdumpd (root) on property:persist.vendor.hsm.bootloader.filepath=* → bootloader log copy (root) What a wildcard trigger means * doesn't mean "any value is fine." It means there is no check at all — init will run the service for any proper...
