CVE-2017-1000251: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.0. EPSS: 16.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 overflow vulnerability in the processing of L2CAP configuration responses resulting in Remote code execution in kernel space.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.32, before 3.2.94 (fixed in 3.2.94); from 3.3, before 3.16.49 (fixed in 3.16.49); from 3.17, before 3.18.71 (fixed in 3.18.71); from 3.19, before 4.1.45 (fixed in 4.1.45); from 4.2, before 4.4.88 (fixed in 4.4.88); from 4.5, before 4.9.50 (fixed in 4.9.50); …
• NVIDIA Jetson TK1: version r21 only; version r24 only
• NVIDIA Jetson TX1: version r21 only; version r24 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 6.2 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.6 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 6.7 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 6.5 only; version 6.6 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2017-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.