CVE-2016-7837

HIGH 7.8CVE-2016-7837 · Published 09/06/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-7837 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting bluez (bluez).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.56%, higher than 46.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
bluez bluez	`≤ 5.41`	No fix yet

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.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

≤ 5.41

No fix yet

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