Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in BlueZ 5.42's le_meta_ev_dump Function

Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in BlueZ 5.42's le_meta_ev_dump Function

CVE-2016-9803 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was observed in "le_meta_ev_dump" function in "tools/parser/hci.c" source file. This issue exists because 'subevent' (which is used to read correct element from 'ev_le_meta_str' array) is overflowed.

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