About Denial-of-Service vulnerability in Bluetooth

Release Date: Sep 20, 2018

Denial-of-Service vulnerability in Bluetooth driver for Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N and Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N products.
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Vulnerability summary

A STOP error (BSOD) is triggered in the driver when a malformed Connection Request is sent to the Intel Bluetooth device.

Details are explained in Intel site below.

Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N and Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N products Bluetooth Driver Advisory (INTEL-SA-00177)

Content of countermeasure

We will inform you of countermeasure for vulnerability.

  • Please take the following workaround.
    [workaround] Disable Bluetooth function.
Target model OS Countermeasure module
CF-19[0/1] (mk6)
CF-19[5/8] (mk7)
CF-19Z (mk8)
CF-31[S/U/V] (mk3)
CF-31[W/X/Y] (mk4)
CF-52[V/W] (mk5)
CF-53S (mk3)
CF-531 (mk4)
CF-C2A (mk1)
CF-D1[G/K] (mk2)
CF-H2B (mk1)
CF-H2F (mk2)
CF-H2P (mk3)
FZ-G1[A/B/C] (mk1)
UT-MA6 (mk1)
UT-MB5 (mk1) 		Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 7		 There is no release of countermeasure module from Intel.