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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by fluidcruft on Monday July 27, 2015 @04:46PM (#9957890)
According to the reddit discussion, 5.1.1 is demonstrated to be vulnerable (so it affects everything 2.2 and later).
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by ajross on Monday July 27, 2015 @06:06PM (#9958340)
Link to that reddit thread? AFAICT, all current claims are for a crash exploit into libstagefright, not a breakout of the mediaserver to (for example) persistently write a payload/rootkit.
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