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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-223428e702 Critical: bluez 5.78 Update

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 40 security notice regarding bluez version 5.78 includes vital patches and improvements for Bluetooth functionalities.
libell 0.69: Add support for getting remaining microseconds left on a timer

Summary

Utilities for use in Bluetooth applications:

- avinfo

- bluemoon

- bluetoothctl

- bluetoothd

- btattach

- btmon

- hex2hcd

- mpris-proxy

The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A.

Update Information:

libell 0.69: Add support for getting remaining microseconds left on a timer. Add support for setting link MTU on a network interface. iwd 2.21: Fix issue with pending scan requests after regdom update. Fix issue with handling the rearming of the roaming timeout. Fix issue with survey request and externally triggered scans. Fix issue with RSSI fallback when setting CQM threshold fails. Fix issue with FT-over-Air without offchannel support. Add support for per station Affinities property. bluez 5.78: Fix issue with handling notification of scanned BISes to BASS Fix issue with handling checking BIS caps against peer caps. Fix issue with handling MGMT Set Device Flags overwrites. Fix issue with handling ASE notification order. Fix issue with handling BIG Info report events. Fix issue with handling PACS Server role. Fix issue with registering UHID_START multiple times. Fix issue with pairing method not setting auto-connect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical fix bluez Bluetooth utilities libell features

Change Log

* Mon Sep 9 2024 Peter Robinson - 5.78-1 - Update to 5.78 * Wed Jul 17 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.77-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2294016 - CVE-2023-52424 iwd: 802.11: SSID Confusion attack [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294016 [ 2 ] Bug #2307290 - libell-0.68 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2307290 [ 3 ] Bug #2310802 - libell-0.69 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310802 [ 4 ] Bug #2310805 - iwd-2.21 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310805

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-223428e702' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: bluez
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 5.78
Release: 1.fc40
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Summary: Bluetooth utilities

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical fix bluez Bluetooth utilities libell features

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