Bug 1425117 (CVE-2016-7837)

Summary:	CVE-2016-7837 bluez: Buffer overflow in parse_line function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dkholia, dwmw2, dzickus, marcel, pachoramos1, yozone
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-20 15:32:20 UTC

BlueZ provides a Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux kernel and userland utilities.
parse_line() function used in some userland utilities contains a buffer overflow vulnerability.

Upstream patch:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601

Comment 4 Dhiru Kholia 2017-02-28 08:00:41 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates.