VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-7957

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.90%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-04-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references