CVE-2016-7988

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-10-31

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-275, CWE-388

Affected products

• Android (Google)

References

• http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081