USN-4605-1: Blueman vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 20.10
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• blueman - Graphical bluetooth manager

Details

Vaisha Bernard discovered that blueman did not properly sanitize input on
the d-bus interface to blueman-mechanism. A local attacker could possibly
use this issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code or cause a
denial of service. (CVE-2020-15238)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.10

• blueman - 2.1.3-2ubuntu1

Ubuntu 20.04

• blueman - 2.1.2-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• blueman - 2.0.5-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• blueman - 2.0.4-1ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2020-15238