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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-5071 EUVD-2026-33449

can: Local Denial of Service via SocketCAN Send

Published May 30, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by zephyr

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr — —

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