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Android Qualcomm GPS/GNSS Man-In-The-Middle

Posted Oct 10, 2016

Authored by Yakov Shafranovich | Site wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com

Android devices can be crashed remotely forcing a halt and then a soft reboot by a MITM attacker manipulating assisted GPS/GNSS data provided by Qualcomm. This issue affects the open source code in AOSP and proprietary code in a Java XTRA downloader provided by Qualcomm. The Android issue was fixed by in the October 2016 Android bulletin. Additional patches have been issued by Qualcomm to the proprietary client in September of 2016.

tags | exploit, java, denial of service

advisories | CVE-2016-5348

SHA-256 | a65dfddf168a89391ed0b8297e76ae23566fa1e4d61a4e69446fbad5e0a2b52b

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