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Looks like the moderators switched out the article. It used to point to this one https://threatpost.com/android-stagefright-flaws-put-950-mil...


"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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