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CVE-2016-7957

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7957 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark 2.2.0, where a malformed capture file or packet injection could crash the Bluetooth L2CAP dissector. Rated 7.5 HIGH, this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability for the affected Wireshark instance. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-7957Moderate

wireshark: Bluetooth L2CAP dissector crash

Oct 4, 2016

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2016-56.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/97597
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry