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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-7988

CVE-2016-7988

Description

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

16
  • Google/Android16 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 15 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

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References

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