USN-3856-1

Chris Marchesi discovered that BlueZ incorrectly handled disabling Bluetooth visibility. A remote attacker could possibly pair to devices, contrary to expectations. This update adds a workaround to GNOME Bluetooth to fix the issue.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / gnome-bluetooth

Package

Name: gnome-bluetooth
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/gnome-bluetooth@3.28.0-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.28.0-2ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

3.*

3.26.1-1

3.26.1-2

3.26.1-3

3.27.90-1

3.28.0-1

3.28.0-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "No subscription required",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0",
            "binary_version":  "3.28.0-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "gnome-bluetooth",
            "binary_version":  "3.28.0-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libgnome-bluetooth13",
            "binary_version":  "3.28.0-2ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2018-10910",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "low",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3856-1.json"