CVE-2016-6691
N/A
Published: October 10, 2016 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAndroid
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
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.
Remediation
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References (3)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/frameworks/opt/net/wifi/commit/?id=343f123c396b2a97fc7cce396cd5d99365cb9131Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-172
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