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CVE-2017-12153

CVSS v3.0 4.4 (Medium)
44% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.06 % (28th)
0.06% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 17
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2017-09-21 15:29:00
(7 years ago)
Updated Date
2019-10-09 23:22:22
(5 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.13.3 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.13.3

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
  Debian Linux 9.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts