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The exploit author told a Forbes reporter that Fennec (Android version of Firefox) has already been patched. If that's correct, that seems to imply two things: (1) MMS is just one of many vectors and (2) apparently somehow the exploit can be mitigated at the app level.



Firefox packages its own copy of the libraries it uses, including the stagefright library. They patched their copy in the new release.




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