PT-2016-1004 · Google · Android

Published 2016-01-06 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-6646

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 6.0

Description The issue is related to the System V IPC implementation in the kernel, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming global kernel resources. This is due to improper interaction between IPC resource allocation and the memory manager.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 6.0, update to version 6.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-00067

CVE-2015-6646

Affected Products

Android

References · 8

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-6646 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6646 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6646 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00067 · Security Note
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6646 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_xiaomi_msm8953/commit/3c12649e05c98acbc39b7a27a3b91599cb618138 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1034592 · Note