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Debian DSA-990-1 : bluez-hcidump - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22856

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A denial of service condition has been discovered in bluez-hcidump, a utility that analyses Bluetooth HCI packets, which can be triggered remotely.

Solution

Upgrade the bluez-hcidump package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain bluez-hcidump packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.17-1sarge1

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351881

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-990

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22856

File Name: debian_DSA-990.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bluez-hcidump, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0670

DSA: 990