Low: bluez security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-41229  

Synopsis

Low: bluez security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

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Topic

An update for bluez is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The bluez packages contain the following utilities for use in Bluetooth applications: hcitool, hciattach, hciconfig, bluetoothd, l2ping, start scripts (Red Hat), and pcmcia configuration files.

Security Fix(es):

  • bluez: memory leak in the SDP protocol (CVE-2021-41229)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 2025034 - CVE-2021-41229 bluez: memory leak in the SDP protocol