CVE-2025-39988

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

can: etas_es58x: populate ndo_change_mtu() to prevent buffer overflow

Sending an PF_PACKET allows to bypass the CAN framework logic and to

directly reach the xmit() function of a CAN driver. The only check

which is performed by the PF_PACKET framework is to make sure that

skb->len fits the interface's MTU.

Unfortunately, because the etas_es58x driver does not populate its

net_device_ops->ndo_change_mtu(), it is possible for an attacker to

configure an invalid MTU by doing, for example:

$ ip link set can0 mtu 9999

After doing so, the attacker could open a PF_PACKET socket using the

ETH_P_CANXL protocol:

socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_CANXL));

to inject a malicious CAN XL frames. For example:

struct canxl_frame frame = {

.flags = 0xff,

.len = 2048,

};

The CAN drivers' xmit() function are calling can_dev_dropped_skb() to

check that the skb is valid, unfortunately under above conditions, the

malicious packet is able to go through can_dev_dropped_skb() checks:

1. the skb->protocol is set to ETH_P_CANXL which is valid (the

function does not check the actual device capabilities).

2. the length is a valid CAN XL length.

And so, es58x_start_xmit() receives a CAN XL frame which it is not

able to correctly handle and will thus misinterpret it as a CAN(FD)

frame.

This can result in a buffer overflow. For example, using the es581.4

variant, the frame will be dispatched to es581_4_tx_can_msg(), go

through the last check at the beginning of this function:

if (can_is_canfd_skb(skb))

return -EMSGSIZE;

and reach this line:

memcpy(tx_can_msg->data, cf->data, cf->len);

Here, cf->len corresponds to the flags field of the CAN XL frame. In

our previous example, we set canxl_frame->flags to 0xff. Because the

maximum expected length is 8, a buffer overflow of 247 bytes occurs!

Populate net_device_ops->ndo_change_mtu() to ensure that the

interface's MTU can not be set to anything bigger than CAN_MTU or

CANFD_MTU (depending on the device capabilities). By fixing the root

cause, this prevents the buffer overflow.