Medium
Security advisory
In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer over-read was identified in "l2cap_packet" function in "monitor/packet.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9802
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer over-read was identified in "l2cap_packet" function in "monitor/packet.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash.
osv:CVE-2016-9802
Complete source record
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