Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0670 - Unspecified vulnerability in Bluez Project Hcidump 1.29
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Buffer overflow in l2cap.c in hcidump 1.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) through a wireless Bluetooth connection via a malformed Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) packet.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-256-1.NASL description Pierre Betouin discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the handling of the L2CAP (Logical Link Control and Adaptation Layer Protocol) layer. By sending a specially crafted L2CAP packet through a wireless Bluetooth connection, a remote attacker could crash hcidump. Since hcidump is mainly a debugging tool, the impact of this flaw is very low. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 21064 published 2006-03-13 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2006-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/21064 title Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : bluez-hcidump vulnerability (USN-256-1) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-990.NASL description A denial of service condition has been discovered in bluez-hcidump, a utility that analyses Bluetooth HCI packets, which can be triggered remotely. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 22856 published 2006-10-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/22856 title Debian DSA-990-1 : bluez-hcidump - programming error NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRAKE_MDKSA-2006-041.NASL description Buffer overflow in l2cap.c in hcidump allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) through a wireless Bluetooth connection via a malformed Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) packet. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 20940 published 2006-02-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20940 title Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : bluez-hcidump (MDKSA-2006:041)
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2006-09-19 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187945 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3. |
References
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113924625825488&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18741
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18971
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19122
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/465
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-990
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:041
- http://www.osvdb.org/23056
- http://www.secuobs.com/news/05022006-bluetooth9.shtml#english
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424133/100/0/threaded
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-256-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0479
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24533