PT-2016-7831 · Bluez+3 · Bluez+3

Op7Ic · Published 2016-10-30 · Updated 2026-05-05 · CVE-2016-9803

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 An out-of-bounds read issue was found in the le meta ev dump function, located in the tools/parser/hci.c source file. This occurs because the subevent variable, used to read the correct element from the ev le meta str array, is overflowed.

Recommendations For BlueZ version 5.42, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the le meta ev dump function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2219

CVE-2016-9803

SUSE-SU-2022:3718-1

SUSE-SU-2022_3718-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Bluez

Debian

Suse

References · 16

• 🔥 https://spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68892.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9803 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9803 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2016-9803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3718-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/support/update/announcement/2022/suse-su-20223718-1 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9803 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94652 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-8921 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193237 · Note