CVE-2016-7989: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Google Android: version 4.2.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.3.1 only; version 4.4 only; version 4.4.1 only; version 4.4.2 only; …

Published 2016-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.