CVE-2016-7957 (GCVE-0-2016-7957)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-12 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:13
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-10-03 00:00
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