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CVE-2019-8922

bluez: heap-based buffer overflow via crafted request

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 25, 2019

Updated · April 16, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer