January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
10h 6m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Secure kernel
Linux has evolved as a trusted platform over the years, and Android has leveraged this fact using it as its kernel. The user-based permission model of Linux has in fact worked well for Android. As mentioned earlier, there is a lot of specific code built into the Linux kernel. With each Android version release, the kernel version has also changed. The following table shows Android versions and their corresponding kernel versions:
|
Android version |
Linux kernel version |
|
1 |
2.6.25 |
|
1.5 |
2.6.27 |
|
1.6 |
2.6.29 |
|
2.2 |
2.6.32 |
|
2.3 |
2.6.35 |
|
3.0 |
2.6.36 |
|
4.0 |
3.0.1 |
|
4.1 |
3.0.31 |
|
4.2 |
3.4.0 |
|
4.2 |
3.4.39 |
|
4.4 |
3.8 |
|
5.0 |
3.16.1 |
|
6.0 |
3.18.1 |
|
7.0 |
4.4.1 |