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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2015-7891 EUVD-2015-7789GHSA-59gr-vjcr-m2p7

Race condition in the ioctl implementation in the Samsung Graphics 2D driver (aka /dev/fimg2d) in Samsung devices with Android L(5.0/5.1) a…

Published Aug 2, 2017 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Race condition in the ioctl implementation in the Samsung Graphics 2D driver (aka /dev/fimg2d) in Samsung devices with Android L(5.0/5.1) allows local users to trigger memory errors by leveraging definition of g2d_lock and g2d_unlock lock macros as no-ops, aka SVE-2015-4598.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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