CVE-2017-0553

Name	CVE-2017-0553
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 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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-891-1, DLA-892-1
NVD severity	high (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	859948

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libnl3 (PTS)	jessie	3.2.24-2	vulnerable
	stretch	3.2.27-2	fixed
	buster, sid	3.4.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
libnl	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant
libnl	source	wheezy	1.1-7+deb7u1	high	DLA-891-1
libnl3	source	(unstable)	3.2.27-2	unimportant		859948
libnl3	source	wheezy	3.2.7-4+deb7u1	high	DLA-892-1

Notes

Fixed by: http://git.infradead.org/users/tgr/libnl.git/commit/3e18948f17148e6a3c4255bdeaaf01ef6081ceeb
Fix via Android: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libnl/+/f83d9c1c67b6be69a96995e384f50b572b667df0
Not a security issue by itself, the upstream patch protects against API misuse,
this still requires missing input validation in the application using libnl