CVE-2015-7897

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Published 2015-11-16 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38611 dos android verified text · 2 KB

Google Security Research · 2015-11-03

Samsung Galaxy S6 - android.media.process Face Recognition Memory Corruption

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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

The attached files cause memory corruption when they are scanned by the face recognition library in android.media.process.

From faces-art.bmp

F/libc    (11305): Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1, fault addr 0x0 in tid 11555 (Thread-1136)
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): Build fingerprint: 'Verizon/zeroltevzw/zeroltevzw:5.0.2/LRX22G/G925VVRU2AOF1:user/release-keys'
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): Revision: '10'
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): ABI: 'arm64'
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): pid: 11305, tid: 11555, name: Thread-1136  >>> android.process.media <<<
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x0   0000007f94ca2100  x1   0000007f94c63480  x2   0000007f94c0e200  x3   0000000000000000
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x4   0000000000000000  x5   0000000000000040  x6   000000000000003f  x7   0000000000000000
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x8   0000007f94c0e240  x9   0000000000000004  x10  000000000000003b  x11  000000000000003a
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x12  0000007f94c02080  x13  00000000ffffffff  x14  0000007f94c02080  x15  000000000151c5e8
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x16  0000007f885fe900  x17  0000007f9ee60d80  x18  0000007f9eed5a40  x19  0000007f94c1d100
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x20  0000000000000000  x21  0000007f94c65150  x22  0000007f949d0550  x23  0000007f94c1d110
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x24  0000000012d39070  x25  0000000000000066  x26  0000000012d23b80  x27  0000000000000066
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     x28  0000000000000000  x29  0000007f949cfd70  x30  0000007f87acd200
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     sp   0000007f949cfd70  pc   0000000000000000  pstate 0000000040000000
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): 
I/DEBUG   ( 2955): backtrace:
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     #00 pc 0000000000000000  <unknown>
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     #01 pc 0000000000000001  <unknown>
I/DEBUG   ( 2955):     #02 pc 26221b0826221b08  <unknown>

To reproduce, download the attached file and wait, or trigger media scanning by calling:

adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED -d file:///mnt/shell/emulated/0/

Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/38611.zip

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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