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CVE-2016-9278

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9278 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Samsung Exynos fimg2d driver affecting Android devices with Exynos 5433, 54xx, or 7420 chipsets. A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic by sending a specially crafted ioctl command. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 5.5 (MEDIUM), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with the primary impact being high availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:samsung:exynos_fimg2d_driver:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9278Moderate

kernel: Kernel Crash on /dev/fimg2d ioctl command

Nov 9, 2016

References

security.samsungmobile.com / smrupdate.html
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/11/09/3
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/11/11/11
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94283
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry