CVE-2015-8546

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with software through 2015-11-12, affecting the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge, Galaxy S6 Edge+, and Galaxy Note5 with the Shannon333 chipset. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the baseband process that is exploitable for remote code execution via a fake base station. The Samsung ID is SVE-2015-5123 (December 2015).

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb
https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

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