National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2547
Original release date:08/12/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
security.c in hcid for BlueZ 2.16, 2.17, and 2.18 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the Bluetooth device name when invoking the PIN helper.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the version of BlueZ as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101557
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [bluez-devel] 20050804 Possible security vulnerability in hcid when calling pin helper
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bluez/utils/hcid/security.c?r1=1.31&r2=1.34
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 14572
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200508-09
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-782
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16476
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16453