CVE-2015-6646 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6646?

CVE-2015-6646 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 6 Jan 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6646?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6646?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-6646 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-6646 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6646 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7hfg-g948-3x2h, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6646.