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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26088
Reference (s):
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.8.2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26896f01467a28651f7a536143fe5ac8449d4041
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