CVE-2016-9801: Bluez

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "set_ext_ctrl" function in "tools/parser/l2cap.c" source file when processing corrupted dump file.

Affected products

• Bluez Bluez: version 5.42 only

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