CVE-2016-9918: Bluez Project Bluez

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was identified in "packet_hexdump" function in "monitor/packet.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash.

Affected products

• Bluez Project Bluez: version 5.42 only

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