CVE-2015-6646: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only

Published 2016-01-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.