CVE-2016-5348 Denial of service in n/a
Man-in-the-middle attackers can cause Android device hangs or reboots by serving large GPS assistance files from spoofed servers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-5348?
CVE-2016-5348 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 Oct 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5348?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2016-5348?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5348 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-2016-5348 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-5348 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rfph-757h-fx45, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5348.