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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2017-09-21T15:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:28:16.646Z
Reserved: 2017-08-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-12153
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-09-21T15:29:00.557
Modified: 2019-10-09T23:22:22.857
Link: CVE-2017-12153
Redhat