Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wi-Fi VenueNameElement in Android 6.x and 7.0

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Wi-Fi VenueNameElement in Android 6.x and 7.0

CVE-2016-3882 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Off-by-one error in server/wifi/anqp/VenueNameElement.java in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via an access point that provides a crafted (1) Venue Group or (2) Venue Type value, aka internal bug 29464811.

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