CVE-2017-1000251

high
Published 2017-09-12 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.0

Description

The native Bluetooth stack in the Linux Kernel (BlueZ), starting at the Linux kernel version 2.6.32 and up to and including 4.13.1, are vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability in the processing of L2CAP configuration responses resulting in Remote code execution in kernel space.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
100%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42762 dos linux
Marcin Kozlowski ยท 2017-09-21

Linux Kernel < 4.13.1 - BlueTooth Buffer Overflow (PoC)

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OS impact

redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.12.13-1
sid Fixed 4.12.13-1
forky Fixed 4.12.13-1
bullseye Fixed 4.12.13-1
bookworm Fixed 4.12.13-1
9.0 Affected โ€”
8.0 Affected โ€”
linux Linux kernel Mixed 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected โ€”
โ€” Affected 3.2.94
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 4.13.1.b-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
nvidia nvidiajetson_tk1r21
nvidia nvidiajetson_tk1r24
nvidia nvidiajetson_tx1r21
nvidia nvidiajetson_tx1r24

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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