USN-7265-1: BlueZ vulnerabilities
Publication date
12 February 2025
Overview
BlueZ could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received specially crafted Bluetooth requests.
Releases
Packages
- bluez - Bluetooth tools and daemons
Details
Julian Rauchberger discovered that BlueZ did not correctly handle certain
memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak
sensitive information or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-8921, CVE-2019-8922)
Julian Rauchberger discovered that BlueZ did not correctly handle certain
memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak
sensitive information or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-8921, CVE-2019-8922)
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.04 xenial | bluez – 5.37-0ubuntu5.3+esm5 | ||
| libbluetooth3 – 5.37-0ubuntu5.3+esm5 | |||
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