Bug 2027459 (CVE-2019-8922) - CVE-2019-8922 bluez: heap-based buffer overflow via crafted request
Summary: CVE-2019-8922 bluez: heap-based buffer overflow via crafted request
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2019-8922
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2031791
Blocks: 2027460
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Reported: 2021-11-29 17:45 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:34 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: bluez 5.49
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A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in bluetoothd in bluez through version 5.48. A missing check on whether there is enough space in the destination buffer can allow an attacker to exploit the vulnerability by crafting a request where the response is large enough to overflow the preallocated buffer.
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-11-29 17:45:31 UTC
A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in bluetoothd in BlueZ through 5.48. There isn't any check on whether there is enough space in the destination buffer. The function simply appends all data passed to it. The values of all attributes that are requested are appended to the output buffer. There are no size checks whatsoever, resulting in a simple heap overflow if one can craft a request where the response is large enough to overflow the preallocated buffer. This issue exists in service_attr_req gets called by process_request (in sdpd-request.c), which also allocates the response buffer.

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https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-linux-bluez-information-leak-and-heap-overflow/

Comment 1 Peter Robinson 2021-11-29 22:23:48 UTC
As per you note this was vulnerable "through 5.48". We build 5.49 for Fedora 27/28/29 on Mar 20 2018, this CVE has been fixed for nearly 4 years in Fedora why is this being opened now?

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2021-11-29 22:32:23 UTC
Actually it looks like el8 is 5.56-2.el8 so it looks like this is fixed in RHEL-8 too

Comment 3 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-11-30 17:01:31 UTC
In reply to comment #1:
> As per you note this was vulnerable "through 5.48". We build 5.49 for Fedora
> 27/28/29 on Mar 20 2018, this CVE has been fixed for nearly 4 years in
> Fedora why is this being opened now?

Hi, this is a flaw bug and it's used to track all Red Hat products that may be affected by this issue, it's not just for Fedora.


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