GPS Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android

CVE-2016-5341 · HIGH Severity

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

The GPS component in Android before 2016-12-05 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (GPS signal-acquisition delay) via an incorrect xtra.bin or xtra2.bin file on a spoofed Qualcomm gpsonextra.net or izatcloud.net host, aka internal bug 31470303 and external bug 211602 (and AndroidID-7225554).

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