CVE-2015-7891

high
Published 2017-08-02 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
4.4
VIR risk
7.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-OCT-2015

Exploits

Exploit-DB

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.