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CVE-2017-15868

Published: 05/12/2017 Updated: 19/01/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 642
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

The bnep_add_connection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in the Linux kernel prior to 3.19 does not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application.

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-15868
It was found that the Bluebooth Network Encapsulation Protocol (BNEP) implementation did not validate the type of second socket passed to the BNEPCONNADD ioctl(), which could lead to memory corruption A local user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability can use this for denial of service (crash or data corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation D ...

References

CWE-20https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2017-12-01https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9882449/https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/71bb99a02b32b4cc4265118e85f6035ca72923f0http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71bb99a02b32b4cc4265118e85f6035ca72923f0http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102084http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00007.htmlhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4082https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.htmlhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/https://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/
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