Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3972-1 bluez -- security update

Date Reported:
13 Sep 2017
Affected Packages:
bluez
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 875633.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000250.
More information:

An information disclosure vulnerability was discovered in the Service Discovery Protocol (SDP) in bluetoothd, allowing a proximate attacker to obtain sensitive information from bluetoothd process memory, including Bluetooth encryption keys.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.23-2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.43-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bluez packages.