CVE-2026-72122

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-72122

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: bcm: fix lockless bound/ifindex race and silent RX_SETUP failure

bcm_sendmsg() reads bo->ifindex and checks bo->bound before taking

lock_sock(), while bcm_notify(), bcm_connect() and bcm_release() all

mutate both fields under that same lock. Because the lockless reads

and the locked writes are unordered with respect to each other, a

racing bcm_notify() (device unregister) or bcm_connect() (concurrent

bind on another thread sharing the socket) can make bcm_sendmsg()

observe an inconsistent combination, e.g. a stale bound=1 together

with the now-cleared ifindex=0, silently turning a socket bound to a

specific CAN interface into one that also matches "any" interface.

Keep the lockless bo->bound check purely as a fast-path reject, and

move the ifindex read (and a bo->bound re-check) into the locked

section, where every writer already serializes. This removes the

possibility of observing the two fields torn against each other,

rather than trying to fix it with more READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairs

on two independently updated fields. Annotate the now-purely-lockless

bo->bound accesses consistently across all its write sites.

Also fix bcm_rx_setup() silently returning success when the target

device disappears concurrently instead of reporting -ENODEV, so a

broken RX op is no longer left registered as if it had succeeded. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References