CVE-2016-6691

Published: Oct 10, 2016Modified: May 6, 2026

9.8

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

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 (1)

Products: Google: Android

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Google Android	Up to 7.0

Related CWEs

The product does not properly encode or decode the data, resulting in unexpected values.

References (6)

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

Source: security@android.com

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330

Source: security@android.com

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/frameworks/opt/net/wifi/commit/?id=343f123c396b2a97fc7cce396cd5d99365cb9131

Source: security@android.com

Issue TrackingPatch

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

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/frameworks/opt/net/wifi/commit/?id=343f123c396b2a97fc7cce396cd5d99365cb9131

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Issue TrackingPatch

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