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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-7989

CVE-2016-7989

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 products

17
  • 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:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • 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:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Samsung Mobile/Galaxy S4 through S7llm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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