vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-9917): bluez vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 8, 2016
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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