CVE-2016-3882 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause Android devices to reboot by connecting to a malicious access point with crafted Wi-Fi ANQP data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-3882?
CVE-2016-3882 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 Oct 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Off-by-one error in server/wifi/anqp/VenueNameElement.java in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via an access point that provides a crafted (1) Venue Group or (2) Venue Type value, aka internal bug 29464811.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3882?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2016-3882?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3882 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-2016-3882 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3882 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7vhv-4r5p-84hf.