CVE-2016-9803

MEDIUM

Bluez - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was observed in "le_meta_ev_dump" function in "tools/parser/hci.c" source file. This issue exists because 'subevent' (which is used to read correct element from 'ev_le_meta_str' array) is overflowed.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68892.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94652

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 62.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
bluez/bluez 5.42
Published Dec 03, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026