Blueborne – How to disable Bluetooth in Fedora

Yesterday 2017-09-13 Redhat released infomation about the mitigation of the Blueborne vulnerability in RHEL: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/blueborne.

For Fedora the new updates are probably still in the build queue and/or being QAed by the community. For a quick fix, you can disable Bluetooth similar than in RHEL:

Stopping Bluetooth related service

systemctl stop bluetooth.service
systemctl disable bluetooth.service
systemctl mask bluetooth.service

Disable the Kernel modules

echo "install bnep /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-bluetooth.conf
echo "install bluetooth /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-bluetooth.conf
echo "install btusb /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-bluetooth.conf
echo "install btintel /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-bluetooth.conf
echo "install btrtl /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-bluetooth.conf
echo "install btbcm /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-bluetooth.conf

Removing the Kernel Modules from a running System

  rmmod bnep
  rmmod btusb
  rmmod btintel
  rmmod btrtl
  rmmod btbcm
  rmmod bluetooth

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