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SUSE: CVE-2020-26088: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-26088: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/24/2020
Created
02/09/2021
Added
02/07/2021
Modified
02/04/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build

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