cve/2016/CVE-2016-9917.md

### [CVE-2016-9917](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9917)
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### Description

In BlueZ 5.42, a buffer overflow was observed in "read_n" function in "tools/hcidump.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in hcidump crash.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg68892.html

#### Github
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