THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-9798
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2016-9798

Bluez vulnerability

CVSS
5.3
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
In BlueZ 5.42, a use-after-free was identified in "conf_opt" function in "tools/parser/l2cap.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in hcidump crash.
Affected vendor
Bluez
Affected product
Bluez
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2016-12-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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