CVE-2017-12153

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 4.4
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-12153
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-09-21T15:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:22:22
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-476 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.13.3
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • HIGH
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 4.4
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 0.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=e785fa0a164aa11001cba931367c7f94ffaff888 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058410 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://marc.info/?t=150525503100001&r=1&w=2 Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100855 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3981 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-1/ Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12153
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12153
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:12:31 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 21:16:03 2017-09-21T15:29Z 2017-09-21T15:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 21:16:03 2019-10-09T23:22:22 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 21:16:03 Modified Vulnerability Status updated