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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-1101-01 Low Severity Bluetooth Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new version of bluez has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, categorized as low severity. For more comprehensive advisory details, click here.
An update for bluez is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The bluez packages contain the following utilities for use in Bluetooth applications: hcitool, hciattach, hciconfig, bluetoothd, l2ping, start scripts (Red Hat), and pcmcia configuration files.
Security Fix(es):
* bluez: failure in disabling Bluetooth discoverability in certain cases may lead to the unauthorized pairing of Bluetooth devices (CVE-2018-10910)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat software update security impact low threat bluez bluetooth security

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10910 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: bluez-5.44-6.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: bluez-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-libs-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-libs-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: bluez-cups-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-hid2hci-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-libs-devel-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-libs-devel-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: bluez-5.44-6.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-libs-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-libs-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: bluez-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-cups-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-hid2hci-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm bluez-libs-devel-5.44-6.el7.i686.rpm bluez-libs-devel-5.44-6.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: bluez-5.44-6.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: bluez-5.44-6.el7.ppc64.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.ppc.rpm bluez-debuginfo-5.44-6.el7.ppc64.rpm bluez-libs-5.44-6.el7.ppc.rpm bluez-libs-5.44-6.el7.ppc64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1101-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1101
Issue date: 2020-03-31

Topic

An update for bluez is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat software update security impact low threat bluez bluetooth security

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1606203 - CVE-2018-10910 bluez: failure in disabling Bluetooth discoverability in certain cases may lead to the unauthorized pairing of Bluetooth devices

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