CVE-2016-7989

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Published: October 31, 2016 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorAndroid· also runs on 5 platforms

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.6%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Android · Google

95%

4.2.2 4.3 4.3.1 4.4 4.4.1 4.4.2 4.4.3 4.4.4 5.0 5.0.1 5.0.2 5.1 5.1.0 5.1.1 6.0 6.0.1

samsung-galaxy-s4 (environment) · samsung-galaxy-s4-mini (environment) · samsung-galaxy-s5 (environment) · samsung-galaxy-s6 (environment) · samsung-galaxy-s7 (environment)