CVE-2026-72122

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72122
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72122.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-72122
Downstream
Published
2026-08-15T05:53:00.704Z
Modified
2026-08-18T03:56:20.753901103Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
can: bcm: fix lockless bound/ifindex race and silent RX_SETUP failure
Details

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

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

bcmsendmsg() reads bo->ifindex and checks bo->bound before taking locksock(), while bcmnotify(), bcmconnect() and bcmrelease() 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 bcmnotify() (device unregister) or bcmconnect() (concurrent bind on another thread sharing the socket) can make bcmsendmsg() 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 READONCE()/WRITEONCE() pairs on two independently updated fields. Annotate the now-purely-lockless bo->bound accesses consistently across all its write sites.

Also fix bcmrxsetup() 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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/72xxx/CVE-2026-72122.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828
Fixed
9e60c586faeaed80d55ab8ce2a4b8e56133bc395
Fixed
ffa80a2af27c97453861a5128e537214a31cd18a
Fixed
6bcc5cd247c2934373bc2a1cdf8bf12321169543
Fixed
0f6f9f95294b4cbb26ba02209e893e3bd91237c3
Fixed
b70f1a15533afeeec5d07f20bec3f3867ab1c7b6
Fixed
35f0ac19efb1a3f6c5e12c00e475a9ec2d9c3a6d
Fixed
b9c6ac6fb4e01b34575816066e5d3890a57b3c86
Fixed
d9b091d9d22fee81ec53fb55d2032951993ceadb

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72122.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.6.25
Fixed
5.10.261
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.212
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.178
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.145
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.97
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.40
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72122.json"