ghsa-2wr3-w5rh-2qx4
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:38
Modified
2025-04-20 03:45
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-12153"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-476"
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-09-21T15:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-2wr3-w5rh-2qx4",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:45:41Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:38:14Z",
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      "url": "https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046"
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      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001\u0026r=1\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981"
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    {
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}


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