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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-9797

This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in hcidump crash.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 3.72%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.72%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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 3.0
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
3.72% probability · 89th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119, CWE-125
Affected
bluez/bluez
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.