Out-of-bounds read in BlueZ - CVE-2016-9802
Published: May 31, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18654
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9802
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the "l2cap_packet" function in "monitor/packet.c" source file while processing a corrupted dump file. A malicious user can trigger out-of-bounds read error that results in btmon crash.
Affected software
BlueZ
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9802
Install update from vendor's website.
BlueZ - update to 5.43