Yay, Google provided Lollipop update for my GPE S4 after all. (Not quite dead yet…)

Bleh, the text said that it fixed the security problem; no reference to stagefright and I have no idea whether the second required fixes were installed so I’ll leave MMS auto download off.

Boo, the update deleted all my many alarms I use to schedule my life. No previous update has done this to my recollection, so I didn’t even check, and my alarms didn’t go off this morning so I didn’t wake up in time to exercise.

Eugene Crosser September 10, 2015 07:11

You might try this to check: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zimperium.stagefrightdetector

Michael K Johnson September 10, 2015 07:54

Good point. Not vulnerable according to that detector. Still bleh that Google was so vague in the description, though.

Eugene Crosser September 10, 2015 09:21

In other news: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/attack-code-exploiting-androids-critical-stagefright-bugs-is-now-public/

:)

Michael K Johnson September 10, 2015 19:37

Well, that will be a nice vector for rooting vendor-abandoned phones. :-)

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