Use After Free Affecting bluez package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-BLUEZ-385933
  • published3 Dec 2016
  • disclosed3 Dec 2016

Introduced: 3 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9798  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 bluez.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bluez package and not the bluez package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In BlueZ 5.42, a use-after-free was identified in "conf_opt" function in "tools/parser/l2cap.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in hcidump crash.