CVE-2016-7957

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.

References

https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html

https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3