Nokia phone bluetooth stack L2CAP denial of service
| nokia-bluetooth-l2cap-dos (24688) |  Low Risk |
Description:
The Nokia N70 cell phone is vulnerable to a denial of service attack caused by improper packet handling by the Bluetooth stack. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially-crafted L2CAP packets to cause the device to become unresponsive.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 2.8 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 2.3 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of February 6, 2010.
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Wed Feb 15 2006 - 03:02:03 CST : [ Secuobs - Advisory ] Another kind of DoS on Nokia cell phones.
- BID-16666: Nokia N70 L2CAP Packets Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-0797: Nokia N70 cell phone allows remote attackers to caues a denial of service (reboot or shutdown) through a wireless Bluetooth connection via a malformed Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) packet whose length field is less than the actual length of the packet, possibly triggering a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using the Bluetooth Stack Smasher (BSS).
- OSVDB ID: 23061: Nokia N70 Cell Phone Bluetooth Crafted L2CAP Packet LDAP DoS
- SA18724: Nokia Cell Phones Bluetooth Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-0538: Nokia Cell Phones Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Nokia N70
Reported:
Feb 15, 2006
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