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CVE-2016-7990

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% 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-190

Description

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, an integer overflow condition exists within libomacp.so when parsing OMACP messages (within WAP Push SMS messages) leading to a heap corruption that can result in Denial of Service and potentially remote code execution, 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/94086
• http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94086

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