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BlueZ Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16453
Release Date: 2005-08-16
Popularity: 6,618 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:BlueZ 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Henryk Plotz has reported a vulnerability in BlueZ, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed as a remote device name is not properly sanitised before being used as a command line argument. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands or to create pairings without the user's approval via a specially crafted remote device name.

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