Security Advisory

CVE-2017-12153

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-09-21 15:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 18:28:16

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

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.

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