CVE-2016-7957

published 2017-04-12

CVE-2016-7957: In Wireshark 2.2.0, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in…

Priority P4 34 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

In Wireshark 2.2.0, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btl2cap.c by avoiding use of a seven-byte memcmp for potentially shorter strings.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wireshark	< wireshark 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 (bookworm)	wireshark 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1 (bookworm)
wireshark	wireshark	—	—
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1	2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1	2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1	2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1
wireshark	wireshark	>= 0 < 2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1	2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 7.5 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.5 HIGH

vendor_redhat 7.5 HIGH

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