CVE-2015-6646

NameCVE-2015-6646
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Notes

NOT-FOR-US: Android
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html
This doesn't represent a specific kernel vulnerability. Android does not need and did not apply resource limits to System V IPC.

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