RHSA-2024:9413 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for bluez is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The bluez packages contain the following utilities for use in Bluetooth applications: hcitool, hciattach, hciconfig, bluetoothd, l2ping, start scripts (Red Hat), and pcmcia configuration files.

Security Fix(es):

• bluez: unauthorized HID device connections allows keystroke injection and arbitrary commands execution (CVE-2023-45866)
• BlueZ: Audio Profile AVRCP Improper Validation of Array Index Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2023-27349)
• bluez: phone book access profile heap-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-51596)
• bluez: OBEX library out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-51594)
• bluez: audio profile avrcp parse_media_folder out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-51592)
• bluez: audio profile avrcp parse_media_element out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-51589)
• bluez: avrcp_parse_attribute_list out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-51580)
• bluez: AVRCP stack-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-44431)
• bluez: phone book access profile heap-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-50230)
• bluez: phone book access profile heap-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-50229)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 9 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2253391 - CVE-2023-45866 bluez: unauthorized HID device connections allows keystroke injection and arbitrary commands execution
• BZ - 2278787 - CVE-2023-27349 BlueZ: Audio Profile AVRCP Improper Validation of Array Index Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• BZ - 2278945 - CVE-2023-51596 bluez: phone book access profile heap-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability
• BZ - 2278955 - CVE-2023-51594 bluez: OBEX library out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability
• BZ - 2278962 - CVE-2023-51592 bluez: audio profile avrcp parse_media_folder out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability
• BZ - 2278965 - CVE-2023-51589 bluez: audio profile avrcp parse_media_element out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability
• BZ - 2278967 - CVE-2023-51580 bluez: avrcp_parse_attribute_list out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability
• BZ - 2278969 - CVE-2023-44431 bluez: AVRCP stack-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability
• BZ - 2278972 - CVE-2023-50230 bluez: phone book access profile heap-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability
• BZ - 2278974 - CVE-2023-50229 bluez: phone book access profile heap-based buffer overflow remote code execution vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2023-27349
• CVE-2023-44431
• CVE-2023-45866
• CVE-2023-50229
• CVE-2023-50230
• CVE-2023-51580
• CVE-2023-51589
• CVE-2023-51592
• CVE-2023-51594
• CVE-2023-51596

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index