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Bug 615258 (CVE-2017-0553) - dev-libs/libnl: Integer overflow in nlmsg_reserve()
Summary: dev-libs/libnl: Integer overflow in nlmsg_reserve()
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2017-0553
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B2 [upstream/ebuild/cve]
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Reported: 2017-04-11 11:54 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-04-29 05:16 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-04-11 11:54:32 UTC 
From ${URL} :

An integer overflow vulnerability was found in nlmsg_reserve() triggered by crafted @len argument resulting into reserving too few bytes.

Upstream patch:

http://git.infradead.org/users/tgr/libnl.git/commit/3e18948f17148e6a3c4255bdeaaf01ef6081ceeb


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.