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CVE-2019-17052
- Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-10-01 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-276
Description
ax25_create in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the AF_AX25 network module in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.3.2 does not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which means that unprivileged users can create a raw socket, aka CID-0614e2b73768.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 29
- Linux kernel: from 3.16 through 5.3.2
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=2c675dab816278a1724c1e93b384c2f05a11cb31
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0614e2b73768b502fc32a75349823356d98aae2c
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0edc3f703f7bcaf550774b5d43ab727bcd0fe06b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6JNEWGIK7QA24OIUUL67QZNJN52NB7T/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4184-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4185-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4185-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4186-1/
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