CVE-2016-5348

Description

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Exploits

Exploit-DB

• EDB-40502 · dos · android

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b
• https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40502/
• https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b
• https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40502/
• https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/

CWEs

CWE-399