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.
Published: 2017-04-12
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-8805 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.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00369}

epss

{'score': 0.00333}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:13:21.414Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-7957

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-04-12T10:59:00.260

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-7957

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7957 - Bugzilla

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