Impact
Information disclosure - a user can discover arbitrary files and directories.
Patches
The issue got fixed in blueman 2.2.4.
Workarounds
Remove blueman/plugins/mechanism/Ppp.py
from the Python site-packages path. This means that the PPPSupport
plugin will not work anymore, but connecting to dialup network services is still supported via the NMDUNSupport
module.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
Impact
Information disclosure - a user can discover arbitrary files and directories.
Patches
The issue got fixed in blueman 2.2.4.
Workarounds
Remove
blueman/plugins/mechanism/Ppp.py
from the Python site-packages path. This means that thePPPSupport
plugin will not work anymore, but connecting to dialup network services is still supported via theNMDUNSupport
module.For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: