CVE-2017-12153

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.

Date published : 2017-09-21

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

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