CVE-2016-7989

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: 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 products

Android: 4.2.2, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.2 (+10)

References

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

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