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Amazon Linux 2 : bluez (ALAS-2022-1881)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168444

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of bluez installed on the remote host is prior to 5.44-7. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1881 advisory.

 2023-06-07: CVE-2022-39177 was added to this advisory.

 A vulnerability was found in BlueZ. This flaw allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service due to malformed and invalid capabilities processed in profiles/audio/avdtp.c. (CVE-2022-39177)

 A vulnerability was found in BlueZ. This flaw allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information because the profiles/audio/avrcp.c does not validate params_len. (CVE-2022-39176)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update bluez' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1881.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-39176.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-39177.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168444

File Name: al2_ALAS-2022-1881.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2022

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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:amazon:linux:bluez-cups, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-hid2hci, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-libs-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39176, CVE-2022-39177