Fedora 24: libnl3 Security Update 2017-1423c7b4b0
Summary
This package contains a convenience library to simplify
using the Linux kernel's netlink sockets interface for
network manipulation
Update Information:
check valid input arguments for nla_reserve() (rh #1414305, CVE-2017-0386)
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1414304 - CVE-2017-0386 libnl: Privilege escalation due to insufficient data checks in nla_reserve and nla_put https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1414304
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade libnl3' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html