CVE-2017-12153

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Published 2017-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

4.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

44%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.12.13-1`
sid	Fixed	`4.12.13-1`
forky	Fixed	`4.12.13-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.12.13-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.12.13-1`
9.0	Affected	—
8.0	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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