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Ubuntu: USN-4578-1 (CVE-2020-26088): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4578-1 (CVE-2020-26088): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/24/2020
Created
02/27/2021
Added
02/25/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1056-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1057-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1072-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1073-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1077-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1085-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1086-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1086-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1089-snapdragon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1098-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1099-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1099-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-120-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-120-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-120-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-121-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-121-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-121-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-hwe
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke-4-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-16-04

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