CVE-2015-7891 is a race condition vulnerability in the Samsung Graphics 2D driver (/dev/fimg2d) affecting Samsung Android L (5.0/5.1) devices. This flaw, due to g2d_lock and g2d_unlock macros being no-ops, allows a local attacker to trigger memory errors. With a CVSS score of 7.0 (HIGH), it has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), public exploit code (EDB-38557) is available, and it has received some media coverage and community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.