CVE-2025-71182

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: make j1939_session_activate() fail if device is no longer registered syzbot is still reporting unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2 even after commit 93a27b5891b8 ("can: j1939: add missing calls in NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler") was added. A debug printk() patch found that j1939_session_activate() can succeed even after j1939_cancel_active_session() from j1939_netdev_notify(NETDEV_UNREGISTER) has completed. Since j1939_cancel_active_session() is processed with the session list lock held, checking ndev->reg_state in j1939_session_activate() with the session list lock held can reliably close the race window.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability3. percentile0.1%
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJan 31, 2026
First seenJan 31, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.10.248, 5.15.198, 6.1.161, 6.6.121, 6.12.66, 6.18.6 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel5.4.1 ≤ v < 5.10.248, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.198, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.161, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.121, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.66, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.6, 5.4, 6.195.10.248, 5.15.198, 6.1.161, 6.6.121, 6.12.66, 6.18.6

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