CVE-2016-9917: Bluez

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Bluez Bluez: version 5.42 only

Published 2016-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.