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Low RLSA-2022:2081 1 CVE

Low: bluez security update

Published May 10, 2022 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

The bluez packages contain the following utilities for use in Bluetooth applications: hcitool, hciattach, hciconfig, bluetoothd, l2ping, start scripts (Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation), and pcmcia configuration files.

Security Fix(es):

* bluez: memory leak in the SDP protocol (CVE-2021-41229)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 bluez 0:5.56-3.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.3
    CVE-2021-41229

    Memory leak in BlueZ

    BlueZ is a Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux. In affected versions a vulnerability exists in sdp_cstate_alloc_buf which allocates memory which will always be hung in the singly linked list of cstates and will not be freed. This will cause a memory leak over …

    BlueZ BlueZ bluez bluez Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025034