High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 12, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2016-7957
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.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
4- 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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