Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android GPS Component

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android GPS Component

CVE-2016-5348 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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