Bug 1425117 (CVE-2016-7837) - CVE-2016-7837 bluez: Buffer overflow in parse_line function
Summary: CVE-2016-7837 bluez: Buffer overflow in parse_line function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-7837
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1425118
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Reported: 2017-02-20 15:32 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:34 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: bluez 5.42
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Last Closed: 2017-02-28 08:00:41 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-20 15:32:20 UTC 
BlueZ provides a Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux kernel and userland utilities.
parse_line() function used in some userland utilities contains a buffer overflow vulnerability.

Upstream patch:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601
Comment 4 Dhiru Kholia 2017-02-28 08:00:41 UTC 
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Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.
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