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CVE-2019-3701
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2019-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-787
Description
An issue was discovered in can_can_gw_rcv in net/can/gw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. The CAN frame modification rules allow bitwise logical operations that can be also applied to the can_dlc field. The privileged user "root" with CAP_NET_ADMIN can create a CAN frame modification rule that makes the data length code a higher value than the available CAN frame data size. In combination with a configured checksum calculation where the result is stored relatively to the end of the data (e.g. cgw_csum_xor_rel) the tail of the skb (e.g. frag_list pointer in skb_shared_info) can be rewritten which finally can cause a system crash. Because of a missing check, the CAN drivers may write arbitrary content beyond the data registers in the CAN controller's I/O memory when processing can-gw manipulated outgoing frames.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0
- Linux kernel: through 4.19.13
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00035.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106443
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120386
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=0aaa81377c5a01f686bcdb8c7a6929a7bf330c68
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00002.html
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=154651842302479&w=2
- https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=154661373531512&w=2
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K17957133
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3932-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3932-2/
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