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 advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-891-1, DLA-892-1
Debian Bugs	859948

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libnl3 (PTS)	buster, bullseye	3.4.0-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	3.7.0-0.2	fixed

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

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

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