High severity7.5OSV Advisory· Published Apr 12, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-7957

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.

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Affected products

Ethereal Group/EtherealOSV
Range: backups/ethereal@18706, ethereal-0-3-15, ethereal-0.3.15, …
Wireshark/Wireshark2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <2.2.0

Patches

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References

bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatch
www.securityfocus.com/bid/97597nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
code.wireshark.org/review/gitwebnvd

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