CVE-2016-3882 - Improper Access Control

Severity

61%

Complexity

65%

Confidentiality

115%

Off-by-one error in server/wifi/anqp/VenueNameElement.java in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via an access point that provides a crafted (1) Venue Group or (2) Venue Type value, aka internal bug 29464811.

Off-by-one error in server/wifi/anqp/VenueNameElement.java in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-10-01 and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via an access point that provides a crafted (1) Venue Group or (2) Venue Type value, aka internal bug 29464811.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.1. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Google Android

First reported 8 years ago

2016-10-10 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-11-28 20:13:00

Affected Software

Google Android 6.0

6.0

Google Android 6.0.1

6.0.1

Google Android (Nougat) 7.0

7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

Vendor Advisory

93295

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/net/wifi/+/35a86eef3c0eef760f7e61c52a343327ba601630

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