CVE-2016-9803: Bluez

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was observed in "le_meta_ev_dump" function in "tools/parser/hci.c" source file. This issue exists because 'subevent' (which is used to read correct element from 'ev_le_meta_str' array) is overflowed.

Affected products

• Bluez Bluez: version 5.42 only

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