Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android System V IPC Implementation

CVE-2015-6646 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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