cve/2017/CVE-2017-12153.md

CVE-2017-12153

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.

POC

Reference

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/437
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3583-2/

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon