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Tracker / CVE-2025-38665

CVE-2025-38665

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode Andrei Lalaev reported a NULL pointer deref when a CAN device is restarted from Bus Off and the driver does not implement the struct can_priv::do_set_mode callback. There are 2 code path that call struct can_priv::do_set_mode: - directly by a manual restart from the user space, via can_changelink() - delayed automatic restart after bus off (deactivated by default) To prevent the NULL pointer deference, refuse a manual restart or configure the automatic restart delay in can_changelink() and report the error via extack to user space. As an additional safety measure let can_restart() return an error if can_priv::do_set_mode is not set instead of dereferencing it unchecked.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.31 → 6.1.148
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.15.9
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.101
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.41

Analysis

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