can: Local Denial of Service via SocketCAN Send
Published May 30, 2026
7.8
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.17%
Description
The SocketCAN implementation validates the length of a user-provided buffer containing a socketcan_frame object using only a NET_ASSERT statement in zcan_sendto_ctx() before dereferencing it in socketcan_to_can_frame(). In production builds where assertions are disabled, a userspace application that controls the length passed to a sendto syscall can supply an incomplete or truncated frame, causing socketcan_to_can_frame() to dereference fields beyond the end of the buffer. This results in an out-of-bounds read that can cause denial-of-service crashes or, because the parsed frame contents are transmitted on the network, leak adjacent memory.
Affected products
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- Version -StatusaffectedConstraints<=4.3
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| Zephyrproject-Rtos | Zephyr | unaffected |
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- ≤ 4.3.0
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Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
References (2)
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-33449 Advisory
- https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-c3w6-x7m3-3c58 ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-33449 | Advisory | |
| https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-c3w6-x7m3-3c58 | ExploitPatchVendor Advisory |
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