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fluidcruft on July 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in ...

According to the reddit discussion, 5.1.1 is demonstrated to be vulnerable (so it affects everything 2.2 and later).

ajross on July 27, 2015 [–]

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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