# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.9 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Oct 2016
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rfph-757h-fx45, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5348

## 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: 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.

## 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:

- Google Android - 'gpsOneXtra' Data Files Denial of Service (exploitdb)

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2016-5348 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2016-5348 exists.

Affected product: Google Android. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5348/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-5348/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5348
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5348
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5348

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