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Debian: DSA-3427-1 Critical Blueman Local Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2015
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-3428-2 highlights a critical vulnerability in Gnome, prompting immediate attention for system upgrades.
It was discovered that the Mechanism plugin of Blueman, a graphical Bluetooth manager, allows local privilege escalation
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Summary

It was discovered that the Mechanism plugin of Blueman, a graphical
Bluetooth manager, allows local privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.23-1+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.99~alpha1-1+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your blueman packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: blueman
CVE ID: not yet available

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