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.
problem types: CWE-476
affected:
{
product: kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13
vendor: n/a
versions:
status: affected, version: kernel since v3.1-rc1 through v4.13
}