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CVE-2016-5348 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293 CVE, MITRE
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b CVE, MITRE Patch 
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required 
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01 CVE, MITRE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40502/ CVE, MITRE
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/ CVE, MITRE Exploit  Patch  Technical Description  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-5348
NVD Published Date:
10/10/2016
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
MITRE