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CVE-2016-5348

Published: Oct 10, 2016

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

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https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01

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http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

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https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747

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https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/

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exploit

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https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b

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