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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-39177

high Nessus Plugin ID 224929

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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.

 - BlueZ before 5.59 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service because malformed and invalid capabilities can be processed in profiles/audio/avdtp.c. (CVE-2022-39177)

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-2022-39177

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-39177

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 224929

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2022_39177.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/5/2025

Updated: 9/3/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-libs-devel, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-hid2hci, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-obexd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-hid2hci, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bluez, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez-cups, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-cups, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bluez-obexd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39177