CVE-2016-5348

medium

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.

References

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

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

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-10-10

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.11586