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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-26088: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1437)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-26088: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1437)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/24/2020
Created
07/17/2023
Added
07/14/2023
Modified
07/14/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel

References

  • ALAS-2020-1437
  • USN-4578-1
  • CVE-2020-26088

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