Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bluez  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2510-BLUEZ-15027713
  • published17 Jan 2026
  • disclosed3 Dec 2016

Introduced: 3 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9799  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bluez package and not the bluez package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.