Amazon Linux 2023 : bluez, bluez-cups, bluez-deprecated (ALAS2023-2023-262)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178602

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-262 advisory.

- A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function read_50_controller_cap_complete of the file tools/mgmt-tester.c of the component BlueZ. The manipulation of the argument cap_len leads to null pointer dereference. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211086 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3563)

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

Solution

Run 'dnf update bluez --releasever 2023.1.20230719' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-262.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-3563.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178602

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-262.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2023

Updated: 7/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3563

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-cups, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-cups-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-deprecated, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-deprecated-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-hid2hci, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-hid2hci-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-libs-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-mesh, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-mesh-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-obexd, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bluez-obexd-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3563