Blueman: Local privilege escalation — GLSA 202011-11

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Blueman.

Package	net-wireless/blueman on all architectures
Affected versions	< 2.1.4
Unaffected versions	>= 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"

Release date
November 11, 2020

Latest revision
November 11, 2020: 2

Severity
high

Exploitable
local

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