CVE-2015-7897
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 7.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 7.0% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2015-7795)
- Published
- November 16, 2015
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2015-7795 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- samsung / galaxy s6
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Samsung Galaxy S6 & S6 Edge VPN Client - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-10634-2015 - archived
- Samsung Galaxy S6 & S6 Edge - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10633-2015 - archived
References
- http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/11/hack-galaxy-hunting-bugs-in-samsung.html(Vendor Advisory)
- 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/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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