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CVE-2015-7897

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.

Published

2015-11-16T19:59:06.707

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Hardware	samsung	galaxy_s6	-	Yes

References

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html ([email protected])
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499&q=samsung ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38611/ ([email protected])
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499&q=samsung (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38611/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)