Out-of-bounds Write Affecting bluez package, versions <5.54-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-BLUEZ-1926133
  • published25 Nov 2021
  • disclosed29 Nov 2021

Introduced: 25 Nov 2021

CVE-2019-8922  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 bluez to version 5.54-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bluez package and not the bluez package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in bluetoothd in BlueZ through 5.48. There isn't any check on whether there is enough space in the destination buffer. The function simply appends all data passed to it. The values of all attributes that are requested are appended to the output buffer. There are no size checks whatsoever, resulting in a simple heap overflow if one can craft a request where the response is large enough to overflow the preallocated buffer. This issue exists in service_attr_req gets called by process_request (in sdpd-request.c), which also allocates the response buffer.

CVSS Scores

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