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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-090a9c11db
2017-01-20 14:15:21.264545
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Name        : libnl3
Product     : Fedora 25
Version     : 3.2.29
Release     : 2.fc25
URL         : http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/
Summary     : Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets
Description :
This package contains a convenience library to simplify
using the Linux kernel's netlink sockets interface for
network manipulation

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Update Information:

Update with patches from upstream    - check valid input arguments for
nla_reserve() (rh #1414305, CVE-2017-0386)   - fix crash during SRIOV parsing
- lazyly read psched settings   - use O_CLOEXEC when creating file descriptorswith fopen()
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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
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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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Fedora 25: libnl3 Security Update 2017-090a9c11db

January 20, 2017
Update with patches from upstream - check valid input arguments for nla_reserve() (rh #1414305, CVE-2017-0386) - fix crash during SRIOV parsing - lazyly read psched settings - u...

Summary

This package contains a convenience library to simplify

using the Linux kernel's netlink sockets interface for

network manipulation

Update Information:

Update with patches from upstream - check valid input arguments for nla_reserve() (rh #1414305, CVE-2017-0386) - fix crash during SRIOV parsing - lazyly read psched settings - use O_CLOEXEC when creating file descriptorswith fopen()

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

Severity
Name : libnl3
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 3.2.29
Release : 2.fc25
URL : http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/
Summary : Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets

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