CVE-2015-8944: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ioresources_init function in kernel/resource.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 6 and 7 (2013) devices, uses weak permissions for /proc/iomem, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading this file, aka Android internal bug 28814213 and Qualcomm internal bug CR786116. NOTE: the permissions may be intentional in most non-Android contexts.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 6.0.1
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.7

Published 2016-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.