CVE-2017-1000251

high

Published 2017-09-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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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

8.0

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

77%

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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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
arch		fixed	`4.13.1.b-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.12.13-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.12.13-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.12.13-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.12.13-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.12.13-1`
debian	8.0	affected
debian	9.0	affected
linux-kernel		affected	`3.2.94`
linux-kernel	-	not-affected
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
nvidia	jetson_tk1	`r21`
nvidia	jetson_tk1	`r24`
nvidia	jetson_tx1	`r21`
nvidia	jetson_tx1	`r24`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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