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The vulnerabilities seem pretty clear from the Checkpoint report, however this is also partly scareware; their business just is more or less bullying people into buying their intrusion deterring solution.

On a more-or-less standard Android device this attack might be rolled into a generic package that can take control of the device and either used to leak data or use it as a part of a botnet. However, if a poisoned application is run in Alien Dalvik on a SFOS device I believe it might have a hard time operating correctly since the Android layer is not similar to what is used in native Android devices.
It would probably (but I cannot be 100% sure of course) need to have a specially tailored version to be effective against SFOS devices. However, if such tailored attack is created, then it could also affect the native part of the system and not only the AD part of the system.

TLDR; probably you are safe in any case. If you do not install Alien Dalvik at all, you certainly are safe.
 

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