Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in BlueZ 5.42: Triggering btmon Crash

CVE-2016-9802 · MEDIUM Severity

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In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer over-read was identified in "l2cap_packet" function in "monitor/packet.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash.

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