Bugzilla – Bug 1013716
VUL-0: CVE-2016-9799: bluez: buffer overflow in pklg_read_hci()
Last modified: 2016-12-06 10:01:58 UTC
In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "pklg_read_hci" function in "btsnoop.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash. References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401524 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-9799 http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-9799/ https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68898.html
The reported bug does not apply to older versions of bluez. None of our codestreams contains the affected function "pklg_read_hci".