Vulnerability CVE-2017-12153: Information
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.
Severity: MEDIUM (4.4) Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Fixed packages
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888 |
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046 |
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410 |
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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437 |
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https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2 |
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100855 |
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DSA-3981 |
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USN-3583-2 |
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USN-3583-1 |
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