CVE-2016-9803Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Bluez

Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 37.92%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 3
Latest updateMay 17

Description

In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was observed in "le_meta_ev_dump" function in "tools/parser/hci.c" source file. This issue exists because 'subevent' (which is used to read correct element from 'ev_le_meta_str' array) is overflowed.

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-2qfh-8vpx-rwwc: In BlueZ 52022-05-17
OSV
CVE-2016-9803: In BlueZ 52016-12-03

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
bluez: out-of-bounds read in le_meta_ev_dump()2016-12-03
Debian
CVE-2016-9803: bluez - In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was observed in "le_meta_ev_dump" function ...2016

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9803 bluez: out-of-bounds read in le_meta_ev_dump()2016-12-05
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