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CVE-2010-3874

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-12-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bcm_connect function in net/can/bcm.c (aka the Broadcast Manager) in the Controller Area Network (CAN) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 on 64-bit platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a connect operation.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 5.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 13
• Linux kernel: before 2.6.36.2 — fixed in 2.6.36.2
• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.36.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0597d1b99fcfc2c0eada09a698f85ed413d4ba84
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/03/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/20/2
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/20/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/20/4
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/20/5

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