Debian DLA-2430-1 : blueman security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 142571

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Vaisha Bernard discovered that Blueman, a graphical bluetooth manager performed insufficient validation on a D-Bus interface, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your blueman packages.

For the detailed security status of blueman please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/blueman

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected blueman package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00005.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/blueman

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/blueman

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142571

File Name: debian_DLA-2430.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2020

Updated: 11/20/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15238

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:blueman, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15238