CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7989

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-10-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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-254

Description

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, a malformed OTA WAP PUSH SMS containing an OMACP message sent remotely triggers an unhandled ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Samsung's implementation of the WifiServiceImpl class within wifi-service.jar. This causes the Android runtime to continually crash, rendering the device unusable until a factory reset is performed, 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

Weakness · not in database (1)

References