Bug#390035: [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#390035: bluez-utils pin file readable by all

Marcel Holtmann marcel at holtmann.org
Mon Oct 9 13:22:49 UTC 2006


Hi Filippo,

> > In most cases, this is just a minor bug. At least having a default pin
> > and 'pairing multi' on by default are much bigger issues, but it's a 
> > security related deviation from upstream. I would like to see this fixed.
> 
> From what I can tell, when the user reaches the point where he cares about not
> having a default pin he can even change permissions. My rationale being that
> bluetooth is not meant to be used in an hostile environment, moreover the
> security features are rather "weak" FWIW.
> I would like to hear upstream opinion though.

starting with bluez-utils-3.7 we are using "security user" as default
and this means we will always ask the passkey agent. If no agent is
registered, then the connection will be rejected.

Regards

Marcel






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