CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-7897
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The media scanning functionality in the face recognition library in android.media.process in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge before G925VVRU4B0G9 allows remote attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted BMP image file.
Affected configurations
• samsung galaxy s6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499&q=samsung code.google.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38611/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499&q=samsung code.google.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38611/ www.exploit-db.com