CVE-2016-9917 — 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-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow10 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 36.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
BluezDebian Bluez
Timeline
PublishedDec 8
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "read_n" function in "tools/hcidump.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in hcidump crash.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDbluez/bluez5.42
▶debiandebian/bluez

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2whh-5gr2-6f5w: In BlueZ 5↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-9917: In BlueZ 5↗2016-12-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
bluez: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in read_n()↗2016-11-14
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Debian
CVE-2016-9917: bluez - In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "read_n" function in "tools/hci...↗2016
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💬Community

5
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9917 CVE-2016-9918 bluez: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-12-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9917 CVE-2016-9918 kf5-bluez-qt: various flaws [epel-7]↗2016-12-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9917 CVE-2016-9918 bluez-hcidump: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-12-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9917 bluez: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in read_n()↗2016-12-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9917 CVE-2016-9918 kf5-bluez-qt: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-12-12
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