CVE-2022-49863

can: af_can: fix NULL pointer dereference in can_rx_register()

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 23, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: af_can: fix NULL pointer dereference in can_rx_register()

It causes NULL pointer dereference when testing as following: (a) use syscall(__NR_socket, 0x10ul, 3ul, 0) to create netlink socket. (b) use syscall(__NR_sendmsg, ...) to create bond link device and vxcan link device, and bind vxcan device to bond device (can also use ifenslave command to bind vxcan device to bond device). (c) use syscall(__NR_socket, 0x1dul, 3ul, 1) to create CAN socket. (d) use syscall(__NR_bind, ...) to bind the bond device to CAN socket.

The bond device invokes the can-raw protocol registration interface to receive CAN packets. However, ml_priv is not allocated to the dev, dev_rcv_lists is assigned to NULL in can_rx_register(). In this case, it will occur the NULL pointer dereference issue.

The following is the stack information: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 PGD 122a4067 P4D 122a4067 PUD 1223c067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP RIP: 0010:can_rx_register+0x12d/0x1e0 Call Trace: <TASK> raw_enable_filters+0x8d/0x120 raw_enable_allfilters+0x3b/0x130 raw_bind+0x118/0x4f0 __sys_bind+0x163/0x1a0 __x64_sys_bind+0x1e/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd </TASK>

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4ac1feff6ea6495cbfd336f4438a6c6d140544a6 to before afab4655750fcb3fca359bc7d7214e3d634cdf9cAffected
  • 1a5751d58b14195f763b8c1d9ef33fb8a93e95e7 to before d68fa77ee3d03bad6fe84e89759ddf7005f9e9c6Affected
  • 4e096a18867a5a989b510f6999d9c6b6622e8f7b to before 261178a1c2623077d62e374a75c195e6c99a6f05Affected
  • 4e096a18867a5a989b510f6999d9c6b6622e8f7b to before a8055677b054bc2bb78beb1080fdc2dc5158c2feAffected
  • 4e096a18867a5a989b510f6999d9c6b6622e8f7b to before 8aa59e355949442c408408c2d836e561794c40a1Affected
  • 96340078d50a54f6a1252c62596bc44321c8bff9Affected
  • 5.4.110 to before 5.4.225Affected
  • 5.10.28 to before 5.10.155Affected
  • 5.11.12 to before 5.12Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 5.4.225 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.155 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.79 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.9 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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