CVE-2015-6646

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Android: 6.0

References

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

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