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CVE-2016-7957

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Date: April 12, 2017

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.

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Related Resources (9)

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7957
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-7957
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7957
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7957
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-7957

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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