Bug 1401543 (CVE-2016-9803) - CVE-2016-9803 bluez: out-of-bounds read in le_meta_ev_dump()
Summary: CVE-2016-9803 bluez: out-of-bounds read in le_meta_ev_dump()
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9803
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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Reported: 2016-12-05 14:30 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:03:18 UTC

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Description Martin Prpič 2016-12-05 14:30:18 UTC 
An out-of-bounds read was found in the le_meta_ev_dump() function in tools/parser/hci.c source file of bluez. This issue exists because 'subevent' (which is used to read correct element from 'ev_le_meta_str' array) is overflowed.

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https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68892.html
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