In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: bcm: track a single source interface for ANYDEV timeout/throttl…
CVE-2026-72115 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 8.1 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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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: bcm: track a single source interface for ANYDEV timeout/throttle ops
An ANYDEV rx op (ifindex == 0) with an active RX timeout and/or
throttle timer has no defined semantics when matching frames arrive
from several interfaces: bcm_rx_handler() can run concurrently for
the same op on different CPUs, racing hrtimer_cancel()/
bcm_rx_starttimer() against bcm_rx_timeout_handler() and causing
spurious RX_TIMEOUT notifications and last_frames corruption. The
same concurrency lets throttled multiplex frames from different
interfaces clobber the single rx_ifindex/rx_stamp fields shared by
the op.
Add op->if_detected to track the first interface that delivers a
matching frame while a timeout/throttle timer is configured, and
reject frames from any other interface for that op. The claim is
decided in bcm_rx_handler() before hrtimer_cancel() touches
op->timer, so a rejected frame can never disturb the claimed
interface's watchdog. RTR-mode ops are excluded via RX_RTR_FRAME,
independent of kt_ival1/kt_ival2, since those may briefly hold a
stale value from an earlier non-RTR configuration.
The claim is released in bcm_notify() on NETDEV_UNREGISTER and in
bcm_rx_setup() when SETTIMER reconfigures the timer values.
A (re-)claim is only possible on CAN devices in NETREG_REGISTERED
dev->reg_state to cover the release in bcm_notify() where reg_state
becomes NETREG_UNREGISTERING until synchronize_net().
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/03dfe347c398fa41a7e30e8dc538f12568c183e6
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/18b45251e74e35668f0dd0c470549384ae191ecf
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f5976f54a04e9f18b25283036ac3136be453b17
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ff8c24b421070a2db99a5cdb86edc9ff339418e
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/57cf104da4cf450ae9c16801a3164604b801d2cc
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6317022b685a430a3ae420456716e3c0c02ef4b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eca8b44d51fc6ab61022258ec968e55e3073b79e
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f147f48837cb1426521f5b3c3b3134c71128a25d
Merged from NVD. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON