DSA-782-1 bluez-utils -- missing input sanitising

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-2547  

Henryk Plötz discovered a vulnerability in bluez-utils, tools and daemons for Bluetooth. Due to missing input sanitising it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands supplied as device name from the remote device. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem since it doesn't contain bluez-utils packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.15-1.1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.19-1. We recommend that you upgrade your bluez-utils package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-782-1 bluez-utils -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:
23 Aug 2005
Affected Packages:
bluez-utils
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 323365.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2547.
More information:

Henryk Plötz discovered a vulnerability in bluez-utils, tools and daemons for Bluetooth. Due to missing input sanitising it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands supplied as device name from the remote device.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem since it doesn't contain bluez-utils packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.15-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.19-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bluez-utils package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/b/bluez-utils/bluez-bcm203x_2.15-1.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-cups_2.15-1.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-pcmcia-support_2.15-1.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bluez-utils/bluez-utils_2.15-1.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.