CVE-2015-6646

The System V IPC implementation in the kernel in Android before 6.0 2016-01-01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (global kernel resource consumption) by leveraging improper interaction between IPC resource allocation and the memory manager, aka internal bug 22300191, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7613.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.2 Medium

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2016-01-06

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Android (Google)

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034592