glsa-202011-11.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202011-11">
  <title>Blueman: Local privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in
    Blueman.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">blueman</product>
  <announced>2020-11-11</announced>
  <revised count="2">2020-11-11</revised>
  <bug>751556</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-wireless/blueman" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.1.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Blueman is a simple and intuitive GTK+ Bluetooth Manager.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker may be able to achieve root privilege escalation.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Blueman users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-wireless/blueman-2.1.4"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15238">CVE-2020-15238</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-11-01T02:23:14Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-11-11T03:43:42Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>