vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7957: wireshark Multiple issues

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-wireshark
Title
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