Riskcovery

CVE-2026-17523

can: bcm: switch timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT and remove hrtimer_tasklet

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 27, 2026
Updated
Sep 10, 2026
Reserved
Jul 27, 2026

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Description

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

can: bcm: switch timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT and remove hrtimer_tasklet

This patch switches the timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT, which executed the timer callback in softirq context and removes the hrtimer_tasklet.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c53a6ee88b0a91bd012ef1b7988c0b93dae6f24d to before 79305a826f872fe446c6fbf8450f515053ef6951Affected
  • c53a6ee88b0a91bd012ef1b7988c0b93dae6f24d to before bf74aa86e111aa3b2fbb25db37e3a3fab71b5b68Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.29Affected
  • before 2.6.29Not affected
  • 4.19.226 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4 and laterNot affected

References

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