CVE-2016-7990
N/A
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 2%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94086Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190CWE-388
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