Publish date
August 2016
Identifier
CVE-2016-7988
Manufacturer
Samsung
Product
Android
Patched
http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
Authors
Tom Court
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.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7988