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SUSE: CVE-2016-7837: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/20/2017
Modified
06/21/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-bluez
  • suse-upgrade-bluez-cups
  • suse-upgrade-bluez-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libbluetooth3

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