Comment 2 for bug 19942

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:35:51 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: bluez-utils: Arbitrary command execution through inproper escaping in hcid's
 security.c

Package: bluez-utils
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch
Justification: user security hole

A vulnerability in hcid has been found. Please see this URL for details:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7893206&forum_id=1881
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101557

Upstream fix available at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bluez/utils/hcid/security.c?r1=1.31&r2=1.34

This is CAN-2005-2547.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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