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CVE-2017-12153
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-21T15:29:00.557 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:02:47.097

Summary

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 products

linux — linux_kernel

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