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Mageia: 2020-0402 Moderate: Blueman Input Sanitization Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2020-0403 reports a vulnerability in blueman that could lead to unauthorized privilege elevation and service disruption. Further specifics provided.
Vaisha Bernard discovered that blueman did not properly sanitize input on the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism

Summary

Vaisha Bernard discovered that blueman did not properly sanitize input on the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-15238).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27485

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4605-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15238

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service privilege escalation input sanitization blueman mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/blueman-2.1.4-1.mga7

Publication date: 08 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0402.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-15238

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service privilege escalation input sanitization blueman mageia

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