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BlueZ Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16453
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Release Date:
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2005-08-16
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | BlueZ 2.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2547 (Secunia mirror)
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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.
Solution:
Update to bluez-libs-2.19 and bluez-utils-2.19.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Henryk Plotz
Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7893206&forum_id=1881
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. BlueZ HID Insecure Device Connection Vulnerability
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