CVE-2016-7989 | BDVDB-2026-79103 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94082

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12016-10-31Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.