MGASA-2017-0158

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    MGASA-2017-0158

    Published: 8 Jun 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated libnl3 packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process (CVE-2017-0386). An integer overflow vulnerability was found in nlmsg_reserve() triggered by crafted @len argument resulting into reserving too few bytes (CVE-2017-0553).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0158.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20168, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/JR5R2FSPYCLDAHTXQC2LKY74N5YW2PQQ/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/KIHASXRQO2YTQPKVP4VGIB2XHPANG6YX/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libnl3

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libnl3?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.2.25-3.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High