CVE-2015-7897

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: 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 products

Samsung Galaxy S6: all versions

References

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499&q=samsung
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38611/
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499&q=samsung
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38611/

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