Hi,
First read about the Stagefright flaw in Android OS June of this year, bacicaly this flaw/bug can allow a hacker to take control of your Android phone via an infected MMS and apparently you wouldn't even know about it allowing a hacker in at system level on your phone. This bug is being taken very seriously.
Zimperium, who discovered the flaw, recently made available a Stagefright Detector app that could be downloaded, www.snipca.com/17949 to your Android device.
Once downloaded, run the app and it will analyse your device and tell you if you are vulnerable to such an attack.
For Samsung phones there is a patch supplied within the above download that allows owners to switch off MMS for some versions of the Android OS, a weakness for this kind of attack if I understand correctly.
When I downloaded the Detector App on to my Galaxy Note 3 it revealed my phone was vulnerable giving me 6 CVE warnings, 5 in red one in green.
Presumably the one in green means the phone is not vulnerable to a particular attack but the rest means the phone still is.
My phone is still running Android Version 4.4.2, I could upgrade to Lollypop 5 but I believe there are issues with this version so am waiting for LP 5.1.1 should it be available.
However StageFright could attack these versions of the OS.
Unfortunately the detector app gives no clear instructions how to further resolve the above vulnerabilities shown on my phone and I was wondering if anyone could advise?
First read about the Stagefright flaw in Android OS June of this year, bacicaly this flaw/bug can allow a hacker to take control of your Android phone via an infected MMS and apparently you wouldn't even know about it allowing a hacker in at system level on your phone. This bug is being taken very seriously.
Zimperium, who discovered the flaw, recently made available a Stagefright Detector app that could be downloaded, www.snipca.com/17949 to your Android device.
Once downloaded, run the app and it will analyse your device and tell you if you are vulnerable to such an attack.
For Samsung phones there is a patch supplied within the above download that allows owners to switch off MMS for some versions of the Android OS, a weakness for this kind of attack if I understand correctly.
When I downloaded the Detector App on to my Galaxy Note 3 it revealed my phone was vulnerable giving me 6 CVE warnings, 5 in red one in green.
Presumably the one in green means the phone is not vulnerable to a particular attack but the rest means the phone still is.
My phone is still running Android Version 4.4.2, I could upgrade to Lollypop 5 but I believe there are issues with this version so am waiting for LP 5.1.1 should it be available.
However StageFright could attack these versions of the OS.
Unfortunately the detector app gives no clear instructions how to further resolve the above vulnerabilities shown on my phone and I was wondering if anyone could advise?