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RHEL 9 : bluez (Unpatched Vulnerability)

high Nessus Plugin ID 198717

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat 9 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

 - kernel: impersonation attack in Bluetooth Mesh Provisioning (CVE-2020-26560)

 - bluez: BlueZ 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)

 - 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 these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Solution

The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation guidance.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 198717

File Name: redhat_unpatched_bluez-rhel9.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 7/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26560

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39177

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bluez, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26560, CVE-2022-3563, CVE-2022-3637, CVE-2022-39177