CVE-2026-72125

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-72125

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

can: isotp: fix use-after-free race with concurrent NETDEV_UNREGISTER

isotp_release() looked up the bound network device via dev_get_by_index()

using the stored ifindex. During device unregistration the device is

unlisted from the ifindex hash before the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier

chain runs, so a concurrent isotp_release() could find no device, skip

can_rx_unregister() entirely, and still proceed to free the socket.

Since isotp_release() had already removed itself from the isotp

notifier list at that point, isotp_notify() would never get a chance to

clean up either, leaving a stale CAN filter that keeps pointing at the

freed socket.

Fix this the same way raw.c already does: hold a tracked reference to

the bound net_device in the socket (so->dev/so->dev_tracker) from

bind() onward instead of re-resolving it from the ifindex, and

serialize bind()/release() with rtnl_lock() so that so->dev is always

consistent with what the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier sees. so->dev

stays valid regardless of ifindex-hash unlisting, and is only ever

cleared by whichever of isotp_release()/isotp_notify() gets there

first, so the filter is always removed exactly once.

isotp_bind() now rejects a (re)bind with -EAGAIN while so->[tx|rx].state

isn't ISOTP_IDLE yet, so a timer left running by a prior

NETDEV_UNREGISTER can't act on a newly bound so->ifindex. Both checks

share the same lock_sock() section, so there is no window in which a

concurrent isotp_notify() clearing so->bound could be missed. (NVD)

What to Do

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

References