CVE-2017-0553
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-04-07 22:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 13:11Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-11-29
- Assigning CNA
- google_android
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190Integer Overflow or WraparoundBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e315facb2a684e8cec7d7265eb48a3c8f1bd4453a29c501dbb41eef2cbeb2824
05 Affected products
06 References
- git.infradead.orghttp://git.infradead.org/users/tgr/libnl.git/commit/3e18948f17148e6a3c4255bdeaaf01ef6081ceeb
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2017-34f6e70fddhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KIHASXRQO2YTQPKVP4VGIB2XHPANG6YX/
- source.android.comhttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01
- lists.infradead.org[libnl] 20170503 ANN: libnl 3.3.0 releasedhttp://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libnl/2017-May/002313.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2299https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2299
- www.securityfocus.com97340http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97340
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-3311-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3311-2
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2017-7a5363b41dhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6VCF5KS6HOJZLFIY2ZSXSVSDQX65A2PU/
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3311-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3311-1/
- www.securitytracker.com1038201http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- libnl Fixed in 3.3.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- libnl3 Fixed in 3.2.27-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libnl3 Fixed in 3.2.27-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libnl3 Fixed in 3.2.27-2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- libnl3 Fixed in 3.2.21-1ubuntu4.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libnl3 Fixed in 3.2.27-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libnl3 Fixed in 3.2.29-0ubuntu3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.