<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="202011-11"> <title>Blueman: Local privilege escalation</title> <synopsis>A privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Blueman. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">blueman</product> <announced>2020-11-11</announced> <revised count="2">2020-11-11</revised> <bug>751556</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="net-wireless/blueman" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.1.4</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.4</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Blueman is a simple and intuitive GTK+ Bluetooth Manager.</p> </background> <description> <p>Where Polkit is not used and the default permissions have been changed on a specific rule file, control of a local DHCP daemon may be possible. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p>A local attacker may be able to achieve root privilege escalation.</p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Blueman users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/blueman-2.1.4" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15238">CVE-2020-15238</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-11-01T02:23:14Z">sam_c</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-11-11T03:43:42Z">sam_c</metadata> </glsa>