vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4311-1 (CVE-2016-7837): BlueZ vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 9, 2017
Added
Mar 31, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-bluezubuntu-upgrade-libbluetooth3
Title
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