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CVE-2016-7837

Buffer overflow in BlueZ 5.41 and earlier allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the parse_line function used in some userland utilities.

Published

2017-06-09T16:29:01.297

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	bluez	bluez	≤ 5.41	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95067 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601 Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN38755305/index.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4311-1/ ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95067 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601 Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN38755305/index.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4311-1/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)