Bug 1491046 (CVE-2017-12153)
Summary: | CVE-2017-12153 kernel: null pointer dereference in nl80211_set_rekey_data() | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vladis Dronov <vdronov> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | airlied, ajax, bskeggs, eparis, esandeen, hdegoede, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jforbes, jglisse, jonathan, josef, jwboyer, kernel-maint, labbott, linville, mchehab, mjg59, nhorman, quintela, slawomir, vdronov |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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A security flaw was discovered in nl80211_set_rekey_data() function in the Linux kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13. This function does not check whether the required attributes are present in a netlink request. This request can be issued by a user with CAP_NET_ADMIN privilege and may result in NULL dereference and a system crash.
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Last Closed: | 2017-09-14 08:19:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1491057, 1491058 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1486466 |
Description
Vladis Dronov
2017-09-12 21:52:41 UTC
Acknowledgments: Name: bo Zhang Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1491057] Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as the code with the flaw is not present in this product. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and MRG-2. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. |