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Re:Android libstagefright still exploitable by guelo on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:46PM (#10056331)
I believe mediaserver also has microphone and camera access which seems scary, though I don't know what harm a crook could do with it. Spy agencies might be more interested.

In general though I totally agree, the media hype has been irresponsibly overblown.

Re:Android libstagefright still exploitable by ajross on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:53PM (#10056389)
Yes, audio and camera are there, which means that you also have access to the graphics memory managed by gralloc/hwcomposer too (though surfaceflinger itself is a separate process -- whether mediaserver has access to all such buffers or just ones passed to it from elsewhere is platform-dependent I think), as well as enough of the display driver to spit audio streams out via HDMI, etc...

All that kernel code tends to be complicated and poorly audited, so it would be a plausible hole. But that's not a "sandboxing" problem exactly.