CVE-2016-7989 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7989?

CVE-2016-7989 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 31 Oct 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-254

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7989?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7989?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7989 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-7989 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7989 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q993-v9x4-3q2m.