GLSA 202011-11: Blueman: Local privilege escalation

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Severity:	high
Title:	Blueman: Local privilege escalation
Date:	11/11/2020
Bugs:	#751556
ID:	202011-11

Synopsis

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Blueman.

Background

Blueman is a simple and intuitive GTK+ Bluetooth Manager.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-wireless/blueman	< 2.1.4	>= 2.1.4	All supported architectures

Description

Where Polkit is not used and the default permissions have been changed on a specific rule file, control of a local DHCP daemon may be possible.

Impact

A local attacker may be able to achieve root privilege escalation.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Blueman users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/blueman-2.1.4"

References

CVE-2020-15238

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202011-11.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.