CVE-2016-9800: Bluez

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "pin_code_reply_dump" function in "tools/parser/hci.c" source file. The issue exists because "pin" array is overflowed by supplied parameter due to lack of boundary checks on size of the buffer from frame "pin_code_reply_cp *cp" parameter.

Affected products

• Bluez Bluez: version 5.42 only

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