CVE-2026-5071 PUBLISHED

can: Local Denial of Service via SocketCAN Send

Assigner: zephyr
Reserved: 27.03.2026 Published: 30.05.2026 Updated: 30.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.1

Product Status

Vendor zephyrproject-rtos
Product Zephyr
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 4.3 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • Out-of-bounds Read CWE