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Ubuntu: USN-3856-1 (CVE-2018-10910): GNOME Bluetooth vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3856-1 (CVE-2018-10910): GNOME Bluetooth vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/14/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/23/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

A bug in Bluez may allow for the Bluetooth Discoverable state being set to on when no Bluetooth agent is registered with the system. This situation could lead to the unauthorized pairing of certain Bluetooth devices without any form of authentication. Versions before bluez 5.51 are vulnerable.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnome-bluetooth
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgnome-bluetooth13

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