It's possible that cyanogenmod has already fixed the flaw, but nothing has been confirmed yet:
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/103270/
There's speculation that disabling auto-retrieval of MMS from your various applications (Messaging, Viber, etc.) could prevent this exploit from occurring, but again, nothing solid has surfaced.
Does anyone here have an insight as to determining if you have received such an MMS text?
Turn off auto-retrieval of MMS. And don't ever EVER even think about opening any text messages from unfamiliar numbers. If necessary, call all of your contacts and explain the situation, and tell them that from there on it's phone calls and voice messages only until this is over with then proceed to ignore all texts.
Yeah. I heard about this on the radio this morning on my drive to work. They said as soon as you open the message though, without even playing the video, the exploit can go off. What a security hole. It's a scary thing to think about.There's speculation that disabling auto-retrieval of MMS from your various applications (Messaging, Viber, etc.) could prevent this exploit from occurring, but again, nothing solid has surfaced.
On some phones, simply receiving the message lets it do its harm. I personally have auto-retrieval off for now.