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Bug 610710 (CVE-2016-7837)

Summary: <net-wireless/bluez-5.42: Buffer overflow in parse_line function
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: pacho
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1425117
Whiteboard: B2 [cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-02-23 16:20:25 UTC
From ${URL} :

BlueZ provides a Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux kernel and userland utilities.
parse_line() function used in some userland utilities contains a buffer overflow vulnerability.

Upstream patch:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2017-02-25 12:00:32 UTC
per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1425117 5.43 version shouldn't be affected
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-02-27 15:05:50 UTC
git tag --contains 8514068150759c1d6a46d4605d2351babfde1601 | sort -u
5.42
5.43
5.44

>=v5.42 in repository since https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4a287d008b4feb1268d81a6d8f94de05d225a61e

Repository is clean.

Closing as invalid because Gentoo is not affected by the reported vulnerability.