What is CVE-2016-9799?

CVE-2016-9799 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bluez, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-12-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-9799?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Bluez

CVE-2016-9799

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "pklg_read_hci" function in "btsnoop.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.020 (79.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Bluez — versions 5.42
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9799?: CVE-2016-9799 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bluez, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-12-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-9799?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.