vulnerability

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
Jan 14, 2019
Added
Jan 23, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-gnome-bluetoothubuntu-upgrade-libgnome-bluetooth13
Title
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