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CVE-2016-9797

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-12-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer over-read was observed in "l2cap_dump" function in "tools/parser/l2cap.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in hcidump crash.

Affected products

• BlueZ: 5.42

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00069.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94652
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68892.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00069.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94652
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68892.html

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