CVE-2016-6691

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-172

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 10, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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