Joshua DrakefromZimperium Mobile Securitydiscovered six + one critical vulnerabilities in the native media playback engine called Stagefright.

He called this weaknesses Mother of all Android Vulnerabilities.

Stagefrightis a native media playback tool used by Android and all these weaknesses reside in it.

Google rolling of Stagefright patch for Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 as build LMY48I

Drake will give the full disclosure along with Proof of Concept at Def Con on 6th August.

He also stated that a total of seven vulnerabilities had been sent to Google by 9th April, 2015.

Samsung smartphones and US Sprint customers should be receiving the update any moment now.

LMY48I Stagefright patch for Nexus 6, Nexus 5 and multiple Samsung smartphones

It is assumed that the above build update is for Android Lollipop going by the Sprints version historywebpage.

To check for the update manually, head toSettings>System update>Update now.

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source: www.techworm.net