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BlueBorne: Critical Bluetooth Attack Puts Billions of Devices at Risk of Hacking

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()3 min read2
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

All
CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2017-0781
+3 related CVEs
A remote code execution vulnerability in the Android system (bluetooth)
8.8
group max
23%
CVE-2017-1000250
All versions of the SDP server in BlueZ 5.46 and earlier are vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability which allows remote attackers to obtain…
6.58%PoC
CVE-2017-1000251
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…
8.016%PoC
CVE-2017-8628
Microsoft Bluetooth Driver in Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703 allows a spoofing…
6.82%

From the original article

3 min read at thehackernews.com

If you are using a Bluetooth enabled device, be it a smartphone, laptop, smart TV or any other IoT device, you are at risk of malware attacks that can carry out remotely to take over your device even without requiring any interaction from your side. Security researchers have just discovered total 8 zero-day vulnerabilities in Bluetooth protocol that impact more than 5.

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