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
1Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94082nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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