Blueman: Local privilege escalation

Blueman: Local privilege escalation A privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Blueman. blueman 2020-11-11 2020-11-11 751556 local 2.1.4 2.1.4

Blueman is a simple and intuitive GTK+ Bluetooth Manager.

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.

A local attacker may be able to achieve root privilege escalation.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Blueman users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/blueman-2.1.4"

CVE-2020-15238 sam_c sam_c