CVE-2016-5348

The GPS component in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, and device hang or reboot) via a large xtra.bin or xtra2.bin file on a spoofed Qualcomm gpsonextra.net or izatcloud.net host, aka internal bug 29555864.

CVSS v3.0 NVD

5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

7.1 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS

3.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 90th percentile

Published

2016-10-10

Updated

2024-09-17

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40502

Security advisories

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b…
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry