CVE-2016-7957

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7957
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7957.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7957
Downstream
Published
2017-04-12T10:59:00.260Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:41:51.784305Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Events
Introduced
5368c50be46d4a44986d12bdfc0a35b42c0f34fc
Last affected
5368c50be46d4a44986d12bdfc0a35b42c0f34fc
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.2.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.2.0
v2.*
v2.2.0
wireshark-2.*
wireshark-2.2.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7957.json"

Git / gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark
Events
Introduced
5368c50be46d4a44986d12bdfc0a35b42c0f34fc
Last affected
5368c50be46d4a44986d12bdfc0a35b42c0f34fc
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.2.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.2.0
v2.*
v2.2.0
wireshark-2.*
wireshark-2.2.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7957.json"