Out-of-Bounds Affecting bluez/bluez package, versions [,5.43)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BLUEZBLUEZ-2369245
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jun 2017

CVE-2016-7837  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bluez/bluez to version 5.43 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Scores

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