---
id: 4555
title: "Kernel Vulnerabilities in the Samsung S4"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/kernel-vulnerabilities-in-the-samsung-s4.html"
published_at: "2015-09-20T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["privilege-escalation", "android", "memory-corruption", "vulnerability", "kernel", "samsung", "cve-2015-1800", "cve-2015-1801"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4555"
lang: en
---

# Kernel Vulnerabilities in the Samsung S4

## Summary

Kernel bugs in the Samsung S4 (GT-I9500), unpatched on Jelly Bean and KitKat: CVE-2015-1800, a stack leak in the samsung_extdisp driver, and CVE-2015-1801 memory corruption, with a proposed patch.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2015-09-20T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/kernel-vulnerabilities-in-the-samsung-s4.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4555