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Red Hat 8.1 RHSA-2021-0183 Important: Bluetooth Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An update for linux-firmware in Red Hat 8.1 resolves critical security vulnerabilities, notably a buffer overflow found in the bluetooth firmware.
An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

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 linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate.
Security Fix(es):
* hardware: buffer overflow in bluetooth firmware (CVE-2020-12321)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow red hat patch important bluetooth firmware update firmware bluetooth security

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12321 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.1):
Source: linux-firmware-20190516-96.git711d3297.el8_1.src.rpm
noarch: iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl105-firmware-18.168.6.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl135-firmware-18.168.6.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl2000-firmware-18.168.6.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl2030-firmware-18.168.6.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl3160-firmware-25.30.13.0-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl6000g2a-firmware-18.168.6.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl6000g2b-firmware-18.168.6.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm iwl7260-firmware-25.30.13.0-96.el8_1.1.noarch.rpm libertas-sd8686-firmware-20190516-96.git711d3297.el8_1.noarch.rpm libertas-sd8787-firmware-20190516-96.git711d3297.el8_1.noarch.rpm libertas-usb8388-firmware-20190516-96.git711d3297.el8_1.noarch.rpm libertas-usb8388-olpc-firmware-20190516-96.git711d3297.el8_1.noarch.rpm linux-firmware-20190516-96.git711d3297.el8_1.noarch.rpm


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Severity
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0183-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0183
Issue date: 2021-01-19

Topic

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.1 Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow red hat patch important bluetooth firmware update firmware bluetooth security

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.1) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1893914 - CVE-2020-12321 hardware: buffer overflow in bluetooth firmware

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