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CVE-2017-12153 json

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.

published 2017-09-21 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-3737

cvss
4.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.12.13-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12153

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-142.191
  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-98.121
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1039.48
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.13.0-1002.5
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1033.33
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.13.0-32.35~16.04.1
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1009.14
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.13.0-1005.7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12153

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.95-21.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.95-21.1
  • kernel-rt_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.95-21.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.95-21.1
  • kernel-ec2 SLE Module for Public Cloud 12 3.12.61-52.101.1
  • kernel-ec2 SLE Module for Public Cloud 12 3.12.74-60.64.63.1
  • kernel-xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 3.12.74-60.64.63.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 3.12.74-60.64.63.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:3267-1SUSE-SU-2017:2920-1SUSE-SU-2017:2908-1SUSE-SU-2017:2869-1SUSE-SU-2017:2847-1

  • kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.14.6-1.4
  • kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.6.17-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10728-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13704-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-12153 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: null pointer dereference in nl80211_set_rekey_data()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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