What is CVE-2008-2374?

CVE-2008-2374 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bluez Bluez-Libs, classified under Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2008-07-07.

How severe is CVE-2008-2374?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Bluez Bluez-Libs

CVE-2008-2374

src/sdp.c in bluez-libs 3.30 in BlueZ, and other bluez-libs before 3.34 and bluez-utils before 3.34 versions, does not validate string length fields in SDP packets, which allows remote SDP servers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted length field that triggers excessive memory allocation or a buffer over-read.

Published 2008-07-07 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.043 (90.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.043 · newest: 0.043 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1284 — Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

References

secunia.com/advisories/31057 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/30105 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-29.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2096/references (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
secunia.com/advisories/34280 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00396.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0581.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
www.bluez.org/bluez-334/ (Product)
www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00233.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2008-2374?: CVE-2008-2374 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Bluez Bluez-Libs, classified under Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2008-07-07.
How severe is CVE-2008-2374?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.