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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by Jehops on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:37PM (#9957115)
I don't see any mention of Stagefright in the article.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by guelo on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:59PM (#9957249)
Looks like the moderators switched out the article. It used to point to this one https://threatpost.com/android-stagefright-flaws-put-950-mil...
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by acqq on Monday July 27, 2015 @03:01PM (#9957267)
"The problem is that Stagefright is an over-privileged application with system access on some devices, which enables privileges similar to apps with root access. Stagefright is used to process a number of common media formats, and it’s implemented in native C++ code, making it simpler to exploit

This is huge.

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