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

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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
06/09/2017
Created
04/02/2020
Added
03/31/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bluez
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libbluetooth3

References

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