CVE-2016-7957

HIGH

Wireshark 2.2.0 - Denial of Service in Bluetooth L2CAP Dissector

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 56.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
wireshark/wireshark 2.2.0
Published Apr 12, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026