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Fedora 25 : libnl3 (2017-090a9c11db)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96672

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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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Solution

Update the affected libnl3 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-090a9c11db

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96672

File Name: fedora_2017-090a9c11db.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libnl3, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0386