CVE-2022-39177

Publication date 2 September 2022

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

BlueZ before 5.59 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service because malformed and invalid capabilities can be processed in profiles/audio/avdtp.c.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
bluez 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
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
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 5.53-0ubuntu3.6
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 5.48-0ubuntu3.9
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

this and CVE-2022-39176 tracked in same LP bug

Patch details

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

Package Patch details
bluez

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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