Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-7957
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 55.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html