CVE-2017-12153
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 21, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 1, 2017
Description
A security flaw was discovered in the nl80211_set_rekey_data() function in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.3. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a Netlink request. This request can be issued by a user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and may result in a NULL pointer dereference and system crash.
Scores
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Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13n/a |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410
- USN-3583-2vendor-advisory
- 100855vdb-entry
- DSA-3981vendor-advisory
- USN-3583-1vendor-advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046
- https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2
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