Unknown number of Bluetooth LE devices impacted by SweynTooth vulnerabilities

From zdnet.com

SweinTooth

A team of academics from Singapore has published this week a research paper detailing a collection of vulnerabilities named SweynTooth that impact devices running the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol.

More specifically, the SweynTooth vulnerabilities impact the software development kits (SDKs) responsible for supporting BLE communications.

These BLE SDKs are provided by vendors of system-on-a-chip (SoC) chipsets.

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