Buffer Overflow Affecting bluez-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-BLUEZLIBS-1359445
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed3 Dec 2016

Introduced: 3 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 bluez-libs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bluez-libs package and not the bluez-libs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "set_ext_ctrl" function in "tools/parser/l2cap.c" source file when processing corrupted dump file.