vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2017-12153: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 21, 2017
Added
Oct 18, 2017
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

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.

Solution(s)

suse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-default-extrasuse-upgrade-kernel-docssuse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
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