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by bonzini 3365 days ago
> Android itself has had big media decode vulnerabilities in the past (looking at you libstagefright) but they basically turned out not to be readily exploitable due to ASLR on modern devices.

That's what the optimist says.

The pessimist says, "Android itself has had big media decode vulnerabilities in the past and they only turned out not to be readily exploitable due to ASLR on modern devices".

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Haha, yeah, I was actually sort of looking forward to the fallout from an MMS worm, brings back the good ol' days of Blaster and Sasser. Might have beat Android updates into shape too.

Unfortunately that dream never came to light.