PT-2016-7052 · Google · Android

Published 2016-10-10 · Updated 2016-12-06 · CVE-2016-6691

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2016-10-05

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to a framework crash, or possibly have other unspecified impacts. This occurs when an access point has a malformed SSID with GBK encoding.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-10-05, update to a version released on or after 2016-10-05 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-172

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6691

Affected Products

Android

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6691 · Vendor Advisory
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6691 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/frameworks/opt/net/wifi/commit/?id=343f123c396b2a97fc7cce396cd5d99365cb9131 · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/93330 · Note