CVE-2017-12153
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12153
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12153.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12153
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-09-21T15:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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A security flaw was discovered in the nl80211setrekeydata() 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 CAPNET_ADMIN capability and may result in a NULL pointer dereference and system crash.
- References
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- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100855
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888
- https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/