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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-24490: kernel: net: bluetooth: heap buffer overflow when processing extended advertising report events

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-24490: kernel: net: bluetooth: heap buffer overflow when processing extended advertising report events

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/02/2021
Created
03/13/2021
Added
03/12/2021
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

Improper buffer restrictions in BlueZ may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. This affects all Linux kernel versions that support BlueZ.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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