BlueZ Phone Book Access Profile heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in BlueZ (the affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Phone Book Access Profile. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 12/20/2023 as ZDI-23-1811. The advisory is available at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-50229 since 12/05/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210817 (RHEL 9 : bluez (RHSA-2024:9413)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (210817). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.8

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 210817
Nessus Name: RHEL 9 : bluez (RHSA-2024:9413)

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Recommended: Upgrade
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12/05/2023 🔍
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04/20/2025 +487 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ZDI-23-1811
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-50229 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-50229
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-248510

Entryinfo

Created: 12/20/2023 12:48 PM
Updated: 04/20/2025 11:08 PM
Changes: 12/20/2023 12:48 PM (37), 11/13/2024 04:21 AM (17), 04/20/2025 11:08 PM (3)
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