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Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® Advisory
| Intel ID: | INTEL-SA-00403 |
|---|---|
| Advisory Category: | Firmware, Software |
| Impact of vulnerability: | Escalation of Privilege, Denial of Service |
| Severity rating: | CRITICAL |
| Original release: | 11/10/2020 |
| Last revised: | 11/10/2020 |
Summary:
Potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® products may allow escalation of privilege or denial of service. Intel is releasing firmware and software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2020-12321
Description: Improper buffer restriction in some Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R) products before version 21.110 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent access.
CVSS Base Score: 9.6 Critical
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVEID: CVE-2020-12322
Description: Improper input validation in some Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R) products before version 21.110 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5 Medium
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® products:
Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201
Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200
Intel® Wireless-AC 9560
Intel® Wireless-AC 9462
Intel® Wireless-AC 9461
Intel® Wireless-AC 9260
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168
Intel® Wireless 7265 (Rev D) Family
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165
Recommendations:
Intel recommends updating affected Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® products to version 21.110 or later.
Windows* OS:
For Windows* 10, updates are available for download at this location:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support.html
Customers can also download the latest available firmware from the Intel Customer Support site here.
Linux OS:
Only CVE-2020-12321 impacts Linux. This CVE is addressed in the Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® firmware version 21.110 for Linux.
Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® firmware to mitigate these vulnerabilities have been up streamed to Linux before November 10th, 2020.
Consult the regular Open Source channels to obtain this update.
Chrome OS:
Only CVE-2020-12321 impacts Chrome OS. This CVE is addressed in the Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® firmware version 21.110 for Chromium.
Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® firmware to mitigate these vulnerabilities have been up streamed to Chromium.
For any Google Chrome OS solution and schedule, please contact Google directly.
Acknowledgements:
Intel would like to thank Denis Straghkov at the Institute for System Programming. V.P. Ivannikov RAS for reporting CVE-2020-12321 and the researchers at Singapore University of Technology and Design for reporting CVE-2020-12322.
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