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CVE-2016-7988
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-10-31T10:59:03.457 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:53:53.787

Summary

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.[Samsung].android.intent.action.SET_WIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of SVE-2016-6542.

Affected products

google — android

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