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CVE-2016-7989
Published: Oct 31, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
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