Insecure Default Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005811
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17056  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-276  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Default 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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