CVE-2016-7989 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.htmlSMR-AUG-2016 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94082

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5