CVE-2016-9803
bluez: out-of-bounds read in le_meta_ev_dump()
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Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · December 3, 2016
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was observed in "le_meta_ev_dump" function in "tools/parser/hci.c" source file. This issue exists because 'subevent' (which is used to read correct element from 'ev_le_meta_str' array) is overflowed.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 2.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 · 1.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read