cve-2017-12153
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-21 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100855Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100855Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13 Version: kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13
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