Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499
The attached files cause memory corruption when they are scanned by the face recognition library in android.media.process.
From faces-art.bmp
F/libc (11305): Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1, fault addr 0x0 in tid 11555 (Thread-1136)
I/DEBUG ( 2955): *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
I/DEBUG ( 2955): Build fingerprint: 'Verizon/zeroltevzw/zeroltevzw:5.0.2/LRX22G/G925VVRU2AOF1:user/release-keys'
I/DEBUG ( 2955): Revision: '10'
I/DEBUG ( 2955): ABI: 'arm64'
I/DEBUG ( 2955): pid: 11305, tid: 11555, name: Thread-1136 >>> android.process.media <<<
I/DEBUG ( 2955): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x0 0000007f94ca2100 x1 0000007f94c63480 x2 0000007f94c0e200 x3 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x4 0000000000000000 x5 0000000000000040 x6 000000000000003f x7 0000000000000000
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x8 0000007f94c0e240 x9 0000000000000004 x10 000000000000003b x11 000000000000003a
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x12 0000007f94c02080 x13 00000000ffffffff x14 0000007f94c02080 x15 000000000151c5e8
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x16 0000007f885fe900 x17 0000007f9ee60d80 x18 0000007f9eed5a40 x19 0000007f94c1d100
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x20 0000000000000000 x21 0000007f94c65150 x22 0000007f949d0550 x23 0000007f94c1d110
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x24 0000000012d39070 x25 0000000000000066 x26 0000000012d23b80 x27 0000000000000066
I/DEBUG ( 2955): x28 0000000000000000 x29 0000007f949cfd70 x30 0000007f87acd200
I/DEBUG ( 2955): sp 0000007f949cfd70 pc 0000000000000000 pstate 0000000040000000
I/DEBUG ( 2955):
I/DEBUG ( 2955): backtrace:
I/DEBUG ( 2955): #00 pc 0000000000000000 <unknown>
I/DEBUG ( 2955): #01 pc 0000000000000001 <unknown>
I/DEBUG ( 2955): #02 pc 26221b0826221b08 <unknown>
To reproduce, download the attached file and wait, or trigger media scanning by calling:
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED -d file:///mnt/shell/emulated/0/
More:
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499