Denial of service vulnerability in the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector in Wireshark by injecting a malformed packet - CVE-2016-7957 (Mac OS X)| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:38107 | Date: (C)2016-11-18 (M)2022-10-10 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: macos |
The host is installed with Wireshark 2.2.x before 2.2.1 and is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly handle bluetooth L2CAP dissector. Successful exploitation allows attackers to crash the service by injecting a malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file.
| Platform: |
| Apple Mac OS 12 |
| Apple Mac OS 11 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.15 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.14 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.13 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.10 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.11 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.12 |
| Apple Mac OS X Server 10.10 |
| Apple Mac OS X Server 10.11 |
| Apple Mac OS X Server 10.12 |
