CVE-2016-9967: Samsung Mobile

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Lack of appropriate exception handling in some receivers of the Telecom application on Samsung Note devices with L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.0) software allows attackers to crash the system easily resulting in a possible DoS attack, or possibly gain privileges. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7121.

Affected products

• Samsung Samsung Mobile: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2016-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.