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: 1.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
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

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00369}

epss

{'score': 0.00333}


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Wireshark Wireshark
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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:53:50.410

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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Weaknesses