CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39925
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler
syzbot is reporting
unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2
problem, for j1939 protocol did not have NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification
handler for undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind().
Commit 25fe97cb7620 ("can: j1939: move j1939_priv_put() into sk_destruct
callback") expects that a call to j1939_priv_put() can be unconditionally
delayed until j1939_sk_sock_destruct() is called. But we need to call
j1939_priv_put() against an extra ref held by j1939_sk_bind() call
(as a part of undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind()) as soon as
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification fires (i.e. before j1939_sk_sock_destruct()
is called via j1939_sk_release()). Otherwise, the extra ref on "struct
j1939_priv" held by j1939_sk_bind() call prevents "struct net_device" from
dropping the usage count to 1; making it impossible for
unregister_netdevice() to continue.
[mkl: remove space in front of label]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4 < 6.16.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.17
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c88069fac2c792e228e6a4ae71c9b9b5b9a87a6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/479d8a2aedcc1db16f14c1a8a9c74b5bdf18b9ac git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e154cb5e7681c2910e2dfa09f05e3469e333745 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76957b618ce729c3bd1e782fbc9d9991af653925 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fcbe5b2c6a4b5407bf2241fdb71e0a390f6ab9a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da9e8f429139928570407e8f90559b5d46c20262 Patch