Publish date
August 2016
Identifier
CVE-2016-7989
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, 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.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7989
