CVE-2017-12153

MEDIUM

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.

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100855

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

https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-09-21

Updated: 2018-08-30

Type: CWE-476

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Severity: MEDIUM