CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7988

Published: Oct 31, 2016 | Modified: Dec 02, 2016

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.8 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7988
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/275.html

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.

References

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