CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6691
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-172
Description
service/jni/com_android_server_wifi_Gbk2Utf.cpp in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi gbk2utf module in Android before 2016-10-05 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (framework crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an access point that has a malformed SSID with GBK encoding, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 978452.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-172 Improper Encoding or Decoding of Data weakness
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/frameworks/opt/net/wifi/commit/?id=343f123c396b2a97fc7cce396cd5d99365cb9131 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/frameworks/opt/net/wifi/commit/?id=343f123c396b2a97fc7cce396cd5d99365cb9131 Issue Tracking, Patch