Denial of Service Vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi gbk2utf Module

CVE-2016-6691 · HIGH Severity

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

service/jni/com_android_server_wifi_Gbk2Utf.cpp in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi gbk2utf module in Android before 2016-10-05 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (framework crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an access point that has a malformed SSID with GBK encoding, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 978452.

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