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Fedora 32 blueman Update: 2020-ebabb6bf76 Moderate Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 32 enhances security by upgrading blueman to v2.1.4, addressing a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
Update to v2.1.4

Summary

Blueman is a tool to use Bluetooth devices. It is designed to provide simple,

yet effective means for controlling BlueZ API and simplifying bluetooth tasks

such as:

- Connecting to 3G/EDGE/GPRS via dial-up

- Connecting to/Creating bluetooth networks

- Connecting to input devices

- Connecting to audio devices

- Sending/Receiving files via OBEX

- Pairing

Update to v2.1.4. Contains security fix for CVE-2020-15238.

* Wed Oct 28 2020 Artur Frenszek-Iwicki - 1:2.1.4-1

- Update to v2.1.4

- Update list of dependencies

[ 1 ] Bug #1892436 - CVE-2020-15238 blueman: local privilege escalation in org.blueman.Mechanism D-Bus interface

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892436

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-ebabb6bf76' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 32
Version: 2.1.4
Release: 1.fc32
Summary: GTK+ Bluetooth Manager

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