Security Advisory

CVE-2015-6646

6.2
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date January 6, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory