Race condition vulnerability in Samsung Graphics 2D Driver in Android L(5.0/5.1) devices allows local users to trigger memory errors (SVE-2015-4598)

CVE-2015-7891 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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