Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in BlueZ 5.42's l2cap_dump Function

CVE-2016-9797 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer over-read was observed in "l2cap_dump" 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.

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