CVE-2020-26088

Description

A missing CAP_NET_RAW check in NFC socket creation in net/nfc/rawsock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.8.2 could be used by local attackers to create raw sockets, bypassing security mechanisms, aka CID-26896f01467a.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4578-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26896f01467a28651f7a536143fe5ac8449d4041

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00021.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00001.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3