It Was Never Patched

Four years of computer science education vs. one Android kernel vulnerability that says "You are now a developer." The duality of modern tech! Somewhere, a CS professor is crying into their algorithms textbook while script kiddies are getting root access with zero knowledge of Big O notation. That security hole has been letting people "become developers" since 2014, and Google's probably still marking it as "will fix in next release" on their Jira board.