UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6646

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6646

    Published: 6 Jan 2016Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-6646

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6646, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html, https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_xiaomi_msm8953/commit/3c12649e05c98acbc39b7a27a3b91599cb618138, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-6646

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: android

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160330-0939-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    20150818-1500-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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