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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39987" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-15T07:56:05.878Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:06:54.724Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39987" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39987.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39987" title: "can: hi311x: populate ndo_change_mtu() to prevent buffer overflow" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: hi311x: populate ndo_change_mtu() to prevent buffer overflow\n\nSending an PF_PACKET allows to bypass the CAN framework logic and to\ndirectly reach the xmit() function of a CAN driver. The only check\nwhich is performed by the PF_PACKET framework is to make sure that\nskb-\u003elen fits the interface's MTU.\n\nUnfortunately, because the sun4i_can driver does not populate its\nnet_device_ops-\u003endo_change_mtu(), it is possible for an attacker to\nconfigure an invalid MTU by doing, for example:\n\n $ ip link set can0 mtu 9999\n\nAfter doing so, the attacker could open a PF_PACKET socket using the\nETH_P_CANXL protocol:\n\n\tsocket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_CANXL))\n\nto inject a malicious CAN XL frames. For example:\n\n\tstruct canxl_frame frame = {\n\t\t.flags = 0xff,\n\t\t.len = 2048,\n\t};\n\nThe CAN drivers' xmit() function are calling can_dev_dropped_skb() to\ncheck that the skb is valid, unfortunately under above conditions, the\nmalicious packet is able to go through can_dev_dropped_skb() checks:\n\n 1. the skb-\u003eprotocol is set to ETH_P_CANXL which is valid (the\n function does not check the actual device capabilities).\n\n 2. the length is a valid CAN XL length.\n\nAnd so, hi3110_hard_start_xmit() receives a CAN XL frame which it is\nnot able to correctly handle and will thus misinterpret it as a CAN\nframe. The driver will consume frame-\u003elen as-is with no further\nchecks.\n\nThis can result in a buffer overflow later on in hi3110_hw_tx() on\nthis line:\n\n\tmemcpy(buf + HI3110_FIFO_EXT_DATA_OFF,\n\t frame-\u003edata, frame-\u003elen);\n\nHere, frame-\u003elen corresponds to the flags field of the CAN XL frame.\nIn our previous example, we set canxl_frame-\u003eflags to 0xff. Because\nthe maximum expected length is 8, a buffer overflow of 247 bytes\noccurs!\n\nPopulate net_device_ops-\u003endo_change_mtu() to ensure that the\ninterface's MTU can not be set to anything bigger than CAN_MTU. By\nfixing the root cause, this prevents the buffer overflow." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2c247e9581024d8b3dd44cbe086bf2bebbef42c"},{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f351db6b2367991f0736b2cff082f5de4872113"},{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ab85762274c0fa997f0ef9a2307b2001aae43c4"},{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57d332ce8c921d0e340650470bb0c1d707f216ee"},{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be1b25005fd0f9d4e78bec6695711ef87ee33398"},{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"def814b4ba31b563584061d6895d5ff447d5bc14"},{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e77fdf9e33a83a08f04ab0cb68c19ddb365a622f"},{"version":"57e83fb9b7468c75cb65cde1d23043553c346c6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac1c7656fa717f29fac3ea073af63f0b9919ec9a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"5.4.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.245","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.194","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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