CVE-2016-7957 | BDVDB-2026-84030 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-04-12Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.