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Calendar Grey January 23, 2017
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The Fedora security notice 2017-1423c7b4b0 focuses on enhancing input validation within libnl3 to avert potential privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
check valid input arguments for nla_reserve() (rh #1414305, CVE-2017-0386)

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)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora privilege escalation input validation libnl3

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

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Name: libnl3
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 3.2.28
Release: 4.fc24
URL: http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/
Summary: Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical Fedora privilege escalation input validation libnl3

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