CVE-2016-7957

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
In Wireshark 2.2.0, the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash, triggered by packet injection or a malformed capture file. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-btl2cap.c by avoiding use of a seven-byte memcmp for potentially shorter strings.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-7957
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-04-12T10:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-04-17T15:42:50
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html Vendor Advisory
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=355b56b1c6c545072ac0c1225730b526c6749f0a Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12825 Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7957
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7957
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:44:43 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 15:45:25 2017-04-12T10:59Z 2017-04-12T10:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 15:45:25 2017-04-17T15:42:50 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 15:45:26 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated