CVE-2015-7718 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7718?

CVE-2015-7718 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 6 Oct 2015.

Official description

mediaserver in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY48T and 6.0 before 2015-10-01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 22278703, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6605.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7718?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7718?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-7718 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-7718 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7718 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-chf8-cg9c-9m69.