CVE-2016-0830 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a persistent daemon crash and denial of service in Android by triggering excessive Bluetooth configuration entries.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-0830?
CVE-2016-0830 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 12 Mar 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
btif_config.c in Bluetooth in Android 6.x before 2016-03-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and persistent daemon crash) by triggering a large number of configuration entries, and consequently exceeding the maximum size of a configuration file, aka internal bug 26071376.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0830?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2016-0830?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2016-0830 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0830 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x8rx-p545-cg85, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0830.