CVE-2016-9799: Bluez

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "pklg_read_hci" function in "btsnoop.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash.

Affected products

• Bluez Bluez: version 5.42 only

Published 2016-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.