CVE-2016-7837

Name	CVE-2016-7837
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium (attack range: local)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
bluez (PTS)	jessie (security), jessie	5.23-2+deb8u1	vulnerable
	stretch (security), stretch	5.43-2+deb9u1	fixed
	buster, sid	5.50-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
bluez	source	(unstable)	5.43-1	medium

Notes

[jessie] - bluez <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - bluez <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
Fixed by: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601 (5.42)