CVE-2026-72122

CVE-2026-72122

High · published August 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00164 · 5.3th percentile
Published
2026-08-15T10:21Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 AUG 05:53Z
    can: bcm: fix lockless bound/ifindex race and silent RX_SETUP failure
    cvelistv5