BlueZ: Privilege Escalation — GLSA 202401-03

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bluez, the worst of which can lead to privilege escalation.

Affected packages

net-wireless/bluez on all architectures
Affected versions < 5.70-r1
Unaffected versions >= 5.70-r1

Background

BlueZ is the canonical bluetooth tools and system daemons package for Linux.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BlueZ. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

An attacker may inject unauthenticated keystrokes via Bluetooth, leading to privilege escalation or denial of service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All BlueZ users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/bluez-5.70-r1"
 

References

Release date
January 05, 2024

Latest revision
January 05, 2024: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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