In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: bcm: add missing device refcount for CAN filter removal sashik…
CVE-2026-72113 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 2.6.25
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How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: bcm: add missing device refcount for CAN filter removal
sashiko-bot remarked a problem with a concurrent device unregistration
in isotp.c which also is present in the bcm.c code. A former fix for raw.c
commit c275a176e4b6 ("can: raw: add missing refcount for memory leak fix")
introduced a netdevice_tracker which solves the issue for bcm.c too.
bcm_release(), bcm_delete_rx_op() and bcm_notifier() relied on
dev_get_by_index(ifindex) to re-find the device for an rx_op before
unregistering its filter. If a concurrent NETDEV_UNREGISTER has already
unlisted the device from the ifindex table, that lookup fails and
can_rx_unregister() is silently skipped, leaving a stale CAN filter
pointing at the soon-to-be-freed bcm_op/socket.
Hold a netdev_hold()/netdev_put() tracked reference on op->rx_reg_dev
from the moment the rx filter is registered in bcm_rx_setup() until it
is unregistered in bcm_rx_unreg(), and use that reference directly in
bcm_release() and bcm_delete_rx_op() instead of re-looking the device
up by ifindex.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/04d23061bbf18d5d81022eb21e9d32e99d24468d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/633bda66fbf309f5de5e1ad6defe8e6b1d77a20f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/84aa4807816e405c1bf87114fc63e06d244281ef
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b024c21c9066f6957b7d4a8f2037e4b000c5e041
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd5232663524e94cc5aad861dca11e3db8e2ab6f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d59948293ea34b6337ce2b5febab8510de70048c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcaee869913c7210cd47ed0a8f27349d7bdcdb7b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee8b36d0faca08f35b889b6e9aa850695e5b8ba9
Merged from NVD. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON