CVE-2015-7898 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published 27 Jun 2017 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Local attackers can crash the Samsung Gallery application on Galaxy S6 devices, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2015-7898?

CVE-2015-7898 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Jun 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Samsung Gallery in the Samsung Galaxy S6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (process crash).

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7898?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Samsung Samsung Mobile.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7898?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-7898 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-2015-7898 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2015-7898 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-37fq-hhvj-f3fr.