CVE-2025-39925

can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Updated
Sep 2, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler

syzbot is reporting

unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2

problem, for j1939 protocol did not have NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler for undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind().

Commit 25fe97cb7620 ("can: j1939: move j1939_priv_put() into sk_destruct callback") expects that a call to j1939_priv_put() can be unconditionally delayed until j1939_sk_sock_destruct() is called. But we need to call j1939_priv_put() against an extra ref held by j1939_sk_bind() call (as a part of undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind()) as soon as NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification fires (i.e. before j1939_sk_sock_destruct() is called via j1939_sk_release()). Otherwise, the extra ref on "struct j1939_priv" held by j1939_sk_bind() call prevents "struct net_device" from dropping the usage count to 1; making it impossible for unregister_netdevice() to continue.

[mkl: remove space in front of label]

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

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c to before 479d8a2aedcc1db16f14c1a8a9c74b5bdf18b9acAffected
  • 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c to before 2c88069fac2c792e228e6a4ae71c9b9b5b9a87a6Affected
  • 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c to before 76957b618ce729c3bd1e782fbc9d9991af653925Affected
  • 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c to before 4e154cb5e7681c2910e2dfa09f05e3469e333745Affected
  • 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c to before da9e8f429139928570407e8f90559b5d46c20262Affected
  • 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c to before 7fcbe5b2c6a4b5407bf2241fdb71e0a390f6ab9aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.4Affected
  • before 5.4Not affected
  • 5.15.220 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.187 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.156 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.108 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.16.8 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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