vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-7957): wireshark vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Apr 12, 2017 | Nov 19, 2024 | Aug 19, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 12, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025
Description
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.
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-wireshark
References
- CVE-2016-7957
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-7957
- CWE-20
- URL-https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825
- URL-https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7957
- URL-https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html
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