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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7957

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/d...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1"}]}]

Debian:13 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1"}]}]

Debian:14 wireshark

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.1+ga6fbd27-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org