Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-5348 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Google Android
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Exploit-Db
| description | Android - 'gpsOneXtra' Data Files Denial of Service. CVE-2016-5348. Dos exploit for Android platform |
| file | exploits/android/dos/40502.txt |
| id | EDB-ID:40502 |
| last seen | 2016-10-11 |
| modified | 2016-10-11 |
| platform | android |
| port | |
| published | 2016-10-11 |
| reporter | Nightwatch Cybersecurity Research |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/40502/ |
| title | Android - 'gpsOneXtra' Data Files Denial of Service |
| type | dos |
Packetstorm
| data source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/139033/androidgps-dos.txt |
| id | PACKETSTORM:139033 |
| last seen | 2016-12-05 |
| published | 2016-10-10 |
| reporter | Yakov Shafranovich |
| source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139033/Android-Qualcomm-GPS-GNSS-Man-In-The-Middle.html |
| title | Android Qualcomm GPS/GNSS Man-In-The-Middle |
References
- https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40502/
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01