Vulnerability CVE-2016-5348
Published: 2016-10-10

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Android Qualcomm GPS/GNSS Man-In-The-Middle
Yakov Shafranovi...
12.10.2016

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.1/10
6.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Google -> 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/
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