CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7988
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-275, CWE-388
Description
On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.[Samsung].android.intent.action.SET_WIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.
Affected configurations
• google android 4.2.2
• google android 4.3
• google android 4.3.1
• google android 4.4
• google android 4.4.1
• google android 4.4.2
• google android 4.4.3
• google android 4.4.4
• google android 5.0
• google android 5.0.1
• google android 5.0.2
• google android 5.1
• google android 5.1.0
• google android 5.1.1
• google android 6.0
• google android 6.0.1
Related
References
- http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry