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 all…

Published 10 y ago 2016-10-10 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.9

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

4.0%

percentile 90%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.96% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-40502 Google Android - 'gpsOneXtra' Data Files Denial of Service · dos · 2016-10-11

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	5.9	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.1	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`

Classification

Weakness

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

securityfocus.com /bid/93293 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
source.android.com /security/bulletin/2018-04-01 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
source.android.com /security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
code.google.com /p/android/issues/detail?id=213747 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com /2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/ · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
exploit-db.com /exploits/40502/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
android.googlesource.com /platform/frameworks/base/+/218b813d5bc2d7d3952ea1861c38b4aa944ac59b · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-5348
NVD: CVE-2016-5348

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