The SocketCAN implementation validates the length of a user-provided buffer containing a socketcan_frame object using only a NET_ASSERT statement in zcan_sendto_ctx() before dereferencing it in socketcan_to_can_frame(). In production builds where assertions are disabled, a userspace application that controls the length passed to a sendto syscall can supply an incomplete or truncated frame, causing socketcan_to_can_frame() to dereference fields beyond the end of the buffer. This results in an out-of-bounds read that can cause denial-of-service crashes or, because the parsed frame contents are transmitted on the network, leak adjacent memory.
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| Description | The SocketCAN implementation validates the length of a user-provided buffer containing a socketcan_frame object using only a NET_ASSERT statement in zcan_sendto_ctx() before dereferencing it in socketcan_to_can_frame(). In production builds where assertions are disabled, a userspace application that controls the length passed to a sendto syscall can supply an incomplete or truncated frame, causing socketcan_to_can_frame() to dereference fields beyond the end of the buffer. This results in an out-of-bounds read that can cause denial-of-service crashes or, because the parsed frame contents are transmitted on the network, leak adjacent memory. | |
| Title | can: Local Denial of Service via SocketCAN Send | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-125 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: zephyr
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Updated: 2026-05-30T07:15:56.417Z
Reserved: 2026-03-27T23:41:28.910Z
Link: CVE-2026-5071
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-30T08:16:16.370
Modified: 2026-05-30T08:16:16.370
Link: CVE-2026-5071
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Updated: 2026-05-30T09:30:19Z
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