Debian Stretch: DLA-903-2 High: Libfoo Buffer Overflow Risk
debian lts
April 10, 2017
It was discovered that there was an integer overflow in libnl3, a library for dealing with netlink sockets
Summary
A missing check in nlmsg_reserve() could have allowed a malicious application
to execute arbitrary code within the context of the WiFi service.
For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in libnl3 version
3.2.7-4+deb7u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libnl3 packages.
Regards,
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Package: libnl3
Version: 3.2.7-4+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-0553
Debian Bug: #859948
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