CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-23298
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: ucan: Fix infinite loop from zero-length messages
If a broken ucan device gets a message with the message length field set
to 0, then the driver will loop for forever in
ucan_read_bulk_callback(), hanging the system. If the length is 0, just
skip the message and go on to the next one.
This has been fixed in the kvaser_usb driver in the past in commit
0c73772cd2b8 ("can: kvaser_usb: leaf: Fix potential infinite loop in
command parsers"), so there must be some broken devices out there like
this somewhere.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13b646eec3ba1131180803f5aaf1fee23540ad8f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e446fd0582ad8be9f6dafb115fc2e7245f9bea7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9e0a7fe5efc2f74327fd37d828e9a51d9ff588
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab6f075492d37368b4c7b0df7f7fdc2b666887fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd85f21a6219aeae4389d700c54f1799f4b814e0