PT-2016-7826 · Bluez+3 · Bluez+3

Op7Ic · Published 2016-10-30 · Updated 2026-05-05 · CVE-2016-9798

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions BlueZ version 5.42

Description A use-after-free issue was identified in the conf opt function in the tools/parser/l2cap.c source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file, resulting in an hcidump crash.

Recommendations For BlueZ version 5.42, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the conf opt function until a patch is available. Restrict access to corrupted dump files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2219

CVE-2016-9798

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1476-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2585-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2588-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1476-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2585-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2588-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12348-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1339-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1353-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1353-2

SUSE-SU-2019:2915-1

SUSE-SU-2019:3046-1

SUSE-SU-2019_2915-1

SUSE-SU-2019_3046-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Bluez

Debian

Suse

References · 39

• 🔥 https://spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68892.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2019:2588-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:1339-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:2915-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9798 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9798 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00069.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9798 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00072.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:1353-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:3046-1 · Vendor Advisory