CVE-2016-9804

Publication date 3 December 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "commands_dump" function in "tools/parser/csr.c" source file. The issue exists because "commands" array is overflowed by supplied parameter due to lack of boundary checks on size of the buffer from frame "frm->ptr" parameter. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in hcidump crash.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
bluez	24.10 oracular	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2020-02-07, appears unfixed crash in hcidump command line tool only

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L