CVE-2025-22003

can: ucan: fix out of bound read in strscpy() source

Medium · published April 3, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

can: ucan: fix out of bound read in strscpy() source

Commit 7fdaf8966aae ("can: ucan: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()")

unintentionally introduced a one byte out of bound read on strscpy()'s

source argument (which is kind of ironic knowing that strscpy() is meant

to be a more secure alternative :)).

Let's consider below buffers:

dest[len + 1]; /* will be NUL terminated */

src[len]; /* may not be NUL terminated */

When doing:

strncpy(dest, src, len);

dest[len] = '\0';

strncpy() will read up to len bytes from src.

On the other hand:

strscpy(dest, src, len + 1);

will read up to len + 1 bytes from src, that is to say, an out of bound

read of one byte will occur on src if it is not NUL terminated. Note

that the src[len] byte is never copied, but strscpy() still needs to

read it to check whether a truncation occurred or not.

This exact pattern happened in ucan.

The root cause is that the source is not NUL terminated. Instead of

doing a copy in a local buffer, directly NUL terminate it as soon as

usb_control_msg() returns. With this, the local firmware_str[] variable

can be removed.

On top of this do a couple refactors:

- ucan_ctl_payload->raw is only used for the firmware string, so

rename it to ucan_ctl_payload->fw_str and change its type from u8 to

char.

- ucan_device_request_in() is only used to retrieve the firmware

string, so rename it to ucan_get_fw_str() and refactor it to make it

directly handle all the string termination logic.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00189 · 8.1th percentile
Published
2025-04-03T07:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 07:19Z
    can: ucan: fix out of bound read in strscpy() source
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