An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1. Android ID: A-32255299.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has libnl3 packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to     execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it     could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-     party application. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1. Android ID: A-32255299.
    (CVE-2017-0386)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3207-1 advisory.

  - An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to     execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it     could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-     party application. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1. Android ID: A-32255299.
    (CVE-2017-0386)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3208-1 advisory.

  - An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to     execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it     could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-     party application. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1. Android ID: A-32255299.
    (CVE-2017-0386)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

check valid input arguments for nla_reserve() (rh #1414305, CVE-2017-0386)

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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 descriptors with     fopen()

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
266265	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : libnl3 Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0222)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
164933	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libnl-1_1 (SUSE-SU-2022:3207-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
164932	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libnl3 (SUSE-SU-2022:3208-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
96675	Fedora 24 : libnl3 (2017-1423c7b4b0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
96672	Fedora 25 : libnl3 (2017-090a9c11db)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2017-0386

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

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high