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CVE-2016-7989
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-10-31T10:59:05.193 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:53:53.910

Summary

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

google — android

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