VDB
CVE-2016-7957
CVE-2016-7957
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.33% · 56.4th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.33%
56.4th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | wireshark | 0, 2.4.2-1, 2.4.3-1 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | wireshark | 1.10.2-1, 1.10.3-1, 0 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | wireshark | 0, 1.12.7+g7fc8978-1, 1.12.8+g5b6e543-2 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Apr 12, 2017 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 16, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7957 third-party-advisory
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825 third-party-advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a third-party-advisory
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7957 third-party-advisory