A new Stagefright vulnerability has been discovered and this time it looks even scarier

03 October, 2015
It seems the Stagefright storm hasn't quite passed after all. As most of you might remember, a few months ago a scary vulnerability in one of Android's core multimedia libraries was uncovered and found to affect almost every device powered by Google's OS, as early as 2.2 Froyo. Since then, there have been no reports of an actual exploit utilizing the bug, but, naturally, it gave the whole industry quite a scare, triggering a quick reaction from many OEM's like Motorola and Samsung, who issued emergency fixes.

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  • 03 Oct 2015

AnonD-123996, 03 Oct 2015Please correct me if i am wrong. Android users can root the... moreYou can apply the fix yourself if there is a fix released.
This applies for Android users.

For developers, it depend on their skills to find the vulnerabilties and make fixes.

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    • Tmt
    • 03 Oct 2015

    AnonD-123996, 03 Oct 2015We users do have all kind of fixes for our android and user... moreActually, many people have been complaining about how Android is going more and more closed source. And by the way, iOS users have fixed security bugs before, for example, iOS 4.3.3 had a bug in which it was possible to execute malicious code with a PDF. Jailbreakers used this bug to develop a jailbreak and then immidiately released a program to Cydia which would patch the bug. This also made it the first time jailbroken iOS was more secure than non-jailbroken (because Apple hadn't released 4.3.4 yet).

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      • 03 Oct 2015

      AnonD-123996, 03 Oct 2015Please correct me if i am wrong. Android users can root the... moreIt's how private and secured devices coming from Apple
      it may give inconvenience to have phone fixed in the store but at the end of the day you'll feel safe that this type of android bugs would enter your phone system

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        • 3Cg
        • 03 Oct 2015

        JD, 03 Oct 2015What a blind fa-n-droid comment..... Pat-thetinc really.....Please correct me if i am wrong. Android users can root the device and fix any issues without even going to the store and fixing from someone else. Can iOS be treated this way? Certainly impossible.

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          • 03 Oct 2015

          JD, 03 Oct 2015What a blind fa-n-droid comment..... Pat-thetinc really.....Why even bother with coments like that?!?!

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            • 03 Oct 2015

            AnonD-123996, 03 Oct 2015We users do have all kind of fixes for our android and user... moreWhat a blind fa-n-droid comment..... Pat-thetinc really.....

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              • 03 Oct 2015

              Anonymous, 03 Oct 2015¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well. That's Android for you.call me dull, i don't care.. but lately i've been reading posts with

              does this code mean something?
              just curious

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                • 03 Oct 2015

                AnonD-123996, 03 Oct 2015We users do have all kind of fixes for our android and user... morehahaha defense mechanism....

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                  • 03 Oct 2015

                  AnonD-446990, 03 Oct 2015If you have root it should be easy to remove.And replace it with what ?. It's libraries that are vulnerable and need to be patched.

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                    • 03 Oct 2015

                    AnonD-362866, 03 Oct 2015Hahahahahahahahahahaha :'DWe users do have all kind of fixes for our android and users itself can fix these issues by themselves as it is open source. Android is far better than your prehacked iCrap iOS that cant be even fixed by users itself. You people are bound to cry near your iCrapple store.

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                      • mqh
                      • 03 Oct 2015

                      If you have root it should be easy to remove.

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                        • rv3
                        • 03 Oct 2015

                        Hahahahahahahahahahaha :'D

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                          • J1C
                          • 03 Oct 2015

                          That's, what happens, when you write an OS in Java.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • PxV
                            • 03 Oct 2015

                            [deleted post]dont do payment things with android. if you whant to do that, go use apple or microsoft devices. sure.. apple and microsft have security flaw too, but they will fix it much much faster than android.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • J5M
                              • 03 Oct 2015

                              They make these threats to scare people to buy a new phone! My Galaxy S2 will never get any more security-updates at all, so these new "threats" are suposed to scare me... into buying a new phone!

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                                • JFB
                                • 03 Oct 2015

                                What I understand from this: new root methods by downloading a song. Lmao

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 4$v
                                  • 03 Oct 2015

                                  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                                  Oh well. That's Android for you.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • AIA
                                    • 03 Oct 2015

                                    And I don't care

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                                      • ucq
                                      • 03 Oct 2015

                                      If this was Windows everyone would have got the patch by day one.

                                      But this is Android, designed with a dysfunctional OS updating model in mind, where any fixes will only reach a minuscule percentage of the user base. Small wonder Samsung etc are seeing less and less profit, because consumers aren't willing to pay big bucks for Android devices anymore yet end up being treated like dirt by the manufacturers and Google.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • npd
                                        • 03 Oct 2015

                                        Android is dead soon