{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2019-09-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: unprivileged users able to create RAW sockets in AF_ISDN network protocol",
    "id" : "1758248",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1758248"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.0",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-250",
  "details" : [ "base_sock_create in drivers/isdn/mISDN/socket.c in the AF_ISDN 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-b91ee4aa2a21.", "A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of the AF_ISDN protocol, which does not enforce the CAP_NET_RAW capability. This flaw can allow unprivileged users to create a raw socket for this protocol. This could further allow the user to control the availability of an existing ISDN circuit." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2020-03-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:0790",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-754.28.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-09-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4062",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.rt56.1131.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-09-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4060",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2020-04-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:1567",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-193.rt13.51.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2020-04-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:1769",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-193.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17055\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17055" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2019-17055",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "At this time the only known way to 'mitigate' this flaw is to blacklist the kernel module from being loaded. Creating raw sockets with this protocol is a method of communicating with ISDN hardware, a technology that is becoming less and less common.\nCheck https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for instructions on how to disable the mISDN_core.ko module.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}