CVE-2016-9797 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Bluez

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read7 documents6 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
BluezDebian Bluez
Timeline
PublishedDec 3
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDbluez/bluez5.42
▶debiandebian/bluez

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-vx7p-gj48-62cq: In BlueZ 5↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-9797: In BlueZ 5↗2016-12-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
bluez: buffer over-read in l2cap_dump()↗2016-12-03
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Debian
CVE-2016-9797: bluez - In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer over-read was observed in "l2cap_dump" function in "tool...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9797, CVE-2016-9798, CVE-2016-9800, CVE-2016-9801, CVE-2016-9803 bluez-hcidump: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-12-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9797 bluez: buffer over-read in l2cap_dump()↗2016-12-05
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