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CVE-2015-7897

Published: Nov 16, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html

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https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499&q=samsung

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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134199/Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Android.media.process-Face-Recognition-Memory-Corruption.html

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