USN-6540-1: BlueZ vulnerability

7 December 2023

BlueZ could be made to give a physically proximate attacker keyboard and mouse control of a computer.

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Releases

Packages

  • bluez - Bluetooth tools and daemons

Details

It was discovered that BlueZ did not properly restrict non-bonded devices
from injecting HID events into the input subsystem. This could allow a
physically proximate attacker to inject keystrokes and execute arbitrary
commands whilst the device is discoverable.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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