More security fun from Android: Most Android phones can be hacked with a simple MMS message or multimedia file
Or as they commented at CodeProject, Watch this video (on your phone) to find out how!
Apparently Android pushes a processing of any multimedia file (and that means even just extracting a thumbnail for OS to display it) through a component called Stagefright (if that is not ominous name) and that's when an attack happens. You have to know the phone number to exploit the vulnerability, but since you sent the MMS there in the first place... Google has a patch, the state of its distribution is another story.
Or as they commented at CodeProject, Watch this video (on your phone) to find out how!

Apparently Android pushes a processing of any multimedia file (and that means even just extracting a thumbnail for OS to display it) through a component called Stagefright (if that is not ominous name) and that's when an attack happens. You have to know the phone number to exploit the vulnerability, but since you sent the MMS there in the first place... Google has a patch, the state of its distribution is another story.