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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by fluidcruft on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @09:09AM (#9968337)
The exploit author told a Forbes reporter that Fennec (Android version of Firefox) has already been patched. If that's correct, that seems to imply two things: (1) MMS is just one of many vectors and (2) apparently somehow the exploit can be mitigated at the app level.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by serendipitous on Thursday August 06, 2015 @12:28AM (#10014531)
Firefox packages its own copy of the libraries it uses, including the stagefright library. They patched their copy in the new release.
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