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CVE-2016-7957
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-04-12T10:59:00.260 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:53:50.410

Summary

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.

Affected products

wireshark — wireshark

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References

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