CVE-2016-5348

Published: 10 October 2016

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
android Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was ignored [abandoned])
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored (abandoned)
	yakkety	Ignored (end of life)
	zesty	Ignored (end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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