CVE-2022-3563

Publication date 17 October 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function read_50_controller_cap_complete of the file tools/mgmt-tester.c of the component BlueZ. The manipulation of the argument cap_len leads to null pointer dereference. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211086 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
bluez	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 5.64-0ubuntu1.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 5.37-0ubuntu5.3+esm4 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

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Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 5.56 This flaw is only in the mgmt-tester tool in the bluez-tests package in universe, this isn't normally used

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
bluez	Upstream: ?id=e3c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.7 · Medium
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H