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
Link | Resource |
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http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016 | Vendor Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94081 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2016-10-31T10:00:00
Updated: 2016-11-25T19:57:01
Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-7988
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2016-10-31T10:59:03.457
Modified: 2016-12-02T23:09:01.353
Link: CVE-2016-7988
JSON object: View
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