CVE-2016-2424 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2424?

CVE-2016-2424 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 18 Apr 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

server/content/SyncStorageEngine.java in SyncStorageEngine in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 mismanages certain authority data, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot loop) via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26513719.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2424?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2424?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2424 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-2424 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2424 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4rpq-2c89-9227.