CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12153
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.13.3)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100855 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100855 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory