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high 7.0

CVE-2017-0553 json

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libnl could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of…

published 2017-04-07 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-0907

cvss
7.0
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libnl could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the Wi-Fi service. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and is mitigated by current platform configurations. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1. Android ID: A-32342065. NOTE: this issue also exists in the upstream libnl before 3.3.0 library.

Patch / fix

  • libnl3 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.2.27-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-0553

  • libnl3 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.2.21-1ubuntu4.1
  • libnl3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.2.27-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • libnl3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 3.2.29-0ubuntu3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0553

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libnl3 RHEL 7 3.2.28-4.el7
  • NetworkManager RHEL 7 1:1.8.0-9.el7
  • libnma RHEL 7 1.8.0-3.el7
  • libnm-gtk RHEL 7 1.8.0-3.el7
  • libnl3-cli RHEL 7 3.2.28-4.el7
  • NetworkManager-ppp RHEL 7 1:1.8.0-9.el7
  • NetworkManager-tui RHEL 7 1:1.8.0-9.el7
  • NetworkManager-adsl RHEL 7 1:1.8.0-9.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2299

  • libnl Arch Linux 3.3.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-292

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-0553 updated cvss 7.0

libnl: Integer overflow in nlmsg_reserve()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libnl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libnl, libnl3, libnl3-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libnl
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) libnma 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3 3.2.28-4.el7, libnm-gtk 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3-cli 3.2.28-4.el7, NetworkManager 1.8.0-9.el7, NetworkManager-ppp 1.8.0-9.el7, +12 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) network-manager-applet 1.8.0-3.el7, NetworkManager-config-server 1.8.0-9.el7, NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules 1.8.0-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) libnma 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3 3.2.28-4.el7, libnm-gtk 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3-cli 3.2.28-4.el7, NetworkManager 1.8.0-9.el7, NetworkManager-ppp 1.8.0-9.el7, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) network-manager-applet 1.8.0-3.el7, NetworkManager-config-server 1.8.0-9.el7, NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules 1.8.0-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) libnma 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3 3.2.28-4.el7, libnm-gtk 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3-cli 3.2.28-4.el7, NetworkManager 1.8.0-9.el7, NetworkManager-ppp 1.8.0-9.el7, +13 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) NetworkManager-adsl 1.8.0-9.el7, network-manager-applet 1.8.0-3.el7, NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules 1.8.0-9.el7
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) libnma 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3 3.2.28-4.el7, libnm-gtk 1.8.0-3.el7, libnl3-cli 3.2.28-4.el7, NetworkManager 1.8.0-9.el7, NetworkManager-ppp 1.8.0-9.el7, +12 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) network-manager-applet 1.8.0-3.el7, NetworkManager-config-server 1.8.0-9.el7, NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules 1.8.0-9.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2299

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Exploit prediction

2.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Google Inc. Android

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

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