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CVE-2016-7837 json

Buffer overflow in BlueZ 5.41 and earlier allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the parse_line function used in some userland ut…

published 2017-06-09 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8686

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow in BlueZ 5.41 and earlier allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the parse_line function used in some userland utilities.

Patch / fix

  • bluez Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.43-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7837

  • bluez Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.101-0ubuntu13.3
  • bluez Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 5.37-0ubuntu5.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7837

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • bluez SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +2 more 5.13-5.4.1
  • bluez SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12-LTSS, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS 5.13-3.10.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:0510-1SUSE-SU-2018:1778-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7837 updated cvss 2.2

bluez: Buffer overflow in parse_line function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bluez-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bluez, bluez-alsa, bluez-cups, bluez-libs, bluez-compat, bluez-gstreamer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bluez, bluez-cups, bluez-libs, bluez-hid2hci
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • BlueZ Project BlueZ

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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