Bluez Security Vulnerabilities - February

CVE-2005-2547

security.c in hcid for BlueZ 2.16, 2.17, and 2.18 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the Bluetooth device name when invoking the PIN helper.

CVE-2006-6899

hidd in BlueZ (bluez-utils) before 2.25 allows remote attackers to obtain control of the (1) Mouse and (2) Keyboard Human Interface Device (HID) via a certain configuration of two HID (PSM) endpoints, operating as a server, aka HidAttack.

CVE-2016-7837

Buffer overflow in BlueZ 5.41 and earlier allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the parse_line function used in some userland utilities.

CVE-2016-9918

In BlueZ 5.42, an out-of-bounds read was identified in "packet_hexdump" function in "monitor/packet.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted dump file and will result in btmon crash.