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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-8922

high Nessus Plugin ID 223062

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in bluetoothd in BlueZ through 5.48. There isn't any check on whether there is enough space in the destination buffer. The function simply appends all data passed to it. The values of all attributes that are requested are appended to the output buffer. There are no size checks whatsoever, resulting in a simple heap overflow if one can craft a request where the response is large enough to overflow the preallocated buffer. This issue exists in service_attr_req gets called by process_request (in sdpd-request.c), which also allocates the response buffer. (CVE-2019-8922)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-8922

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 223062

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2019_8922.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 7/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-8922

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-cups, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-hid2hci, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-cups, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-hid2hci, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8922