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BlueZ SDP Processing Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30957
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Release Date:
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2008-07-07
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Popularity:
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2,087 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | BlueZ 3.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-2374
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in BlueZ, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to multiple boundary errors within various functions in src/sdp.c. These can be exploited to trigger a crash or to potentially corrupt memory via specially crafted SDP responses sent by a malicious SDP server.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.34.
Solution:
Update to bluez-libs 3.35 and bluez-utils 3.35.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Glenn Durfee
Original Advisory:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.devel/15809/
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