can: bcm: fix stale rx/tx ops after device removal (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72116
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: bcm: fix stale rx/tx ops after device removal RX: an RX_SETUP update(!) for an existing op skipped can_rx_register() unconditionally, even when a concurrent NETDEV_UNREGISTER had already torn down its registration (op->rx_reg_dev == NULL). This silently did not re-enable frame delivery for that updated filter. bcm_rx_setup() now re-registers in that case, while leaving rx_ops with ifindex = 0 (all CAN devices) which never carry a tracked rx_reg_dev registered as-is. TX: bcm_notify() only handled bo->rx_ops on NETDEV_UNREGISTER, leaving tx_ops with an active cyclic transmission re-arming its hrtimer indefinitely to execute bcm_tx_timeout_handler(). Cancelling the hrtimer prevents the runaway timer and any injection into a later reused ifindex, since nothing else calls bcm_can_tx() for the op until an explicit TX_SETUP update re-arms it. Unlike bcm_rx_unreg(), which clears the tracked rx_reg_dev for rx_ops, the ifindex is intentionally left unchanged for tx_ops. bcm_tx_setup() always rejects ifindex 0, so clearing it would strand the op: neither a later TX_SETUP (bcm_find_op()) nor TX_DELETE (bcm_delete_tx_op()) could ever find it again, since both require an exact ifindex match.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 < d30a36066ed3abefb72ae18901f71841ba18b350 ; affected ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 < ca829677ffa2de5d79e06366e19ac1e4f5cc78dd ; affected ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 < 9517d8fb0b191398d35b9b7f8c719c1cc7761cb1 ; affected ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 < 60d8a7942f4ed2d975207aaeba1adb576707e53d ; affected ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 < f749e4564952d60e96930c09f2be99955d07c22e ; affected ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 < 6be3e1fedf03eab36a2c09d755d1171287b2014b
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.25 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.25 ; unaffected 5.10.265 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.216 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.148 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD