CVE-2016-5348

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+17)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40502/
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93293
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=213747
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01

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