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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-64585

can: esd_usb: kill anchored URBs before freeing netdevs

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: esd_usb: kill anchored URBs before freeing netdevs esd_usb_disconnect() frees each CAN netdev with free_candev() inside its per-netdev loop and only calls unlink_all_urbs(dev) afterwards. The per-netdev private data (struct esd_usb_net_priv) is embedded in the net_device allocation returned by alloc_candev(), so once free_candev() has run, dev->nets[i] points to freed memory. unlink_all_urbs() then dereferences the freed dev->nets[i] to kill the per-netdev TX anchor (usb_kill_anchored_urbs(&priv->tx_submitted)), clear active_tx_jobs, and reset priv->tx_contexts[]. Reorder the teardown so the anchored URBs are killed before the netdevs are freed, matching other CAN/USB drivers in the same directory such as ems_usb, usb_8dev and mcba_usb, which unregister, then unlink, then free: unregister the netdevs first (which stops their TX queues), call unlink_all_urbs(dev) once, then free the netdevs. This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 to < d12f6add48f2da15c8c8281961d3faad804c76cfaffected
  • 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 to < aa1d005927db38af783c1a4a8a00a39e0229ab2daffected
  • 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 to < a02e1d8f191324583599544d54e59e6a2b74bb0eaffected
  • 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 to < a3314f10369df70925140f59bbe069718f65a0b9affected
  • 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 to < 765ba1c91823a296447528791b89a6504947fd5caffected
  • 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 to < 5832c55b3c824ba2fe9c36ac3c411baddcce053eaffected
  • 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 to < c43122fef328a70045fe7621c06de6b2b8e19264affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 2.6.36affected
  • 0 to < 2.6.36unaffected
  • 5.15.217 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.178 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.145 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.97 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

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