vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-17056

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 1, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

llcp_sock_create in net/nfc/llcp_sock.c in the AF_NFC network module in the Linux kernel through 5.3.2 does not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which means that unprivileged users can create a raw socket, aka CID-3a359798b176.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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