CVE-2017-12153
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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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981
- 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
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