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CVE-2016-7837

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in BlueZ 5.41 and earlier allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the parse_line function used in some userland utilities.

Affected products

• BlueZ: through 5.41

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95067
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN38755305/index.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4311-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95067
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN38755305/index.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4311-1/

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