CVE-2021-47285 net/nfc/rawsock.c: fix a permission check bug

2024-05-2114:20:10

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

vulnerability

net/nfc/rawsock.c

permission check

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.1%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/nfc/rawsock.c: fix a permission check bug

The function rawsock_create() calls a privileged function sk_alloc(), which requires a ns-aware check to check net->user_ns, i.e., ns_capable(). However, the original code checks the init_user_ns using capable(). So we replace the capable() with ns_capable().

CNA Affected

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