# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72116"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:56.260Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:44:56.837Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72116"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72116.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72116"
title: "can: bcm: fix stale rx/tx ops after device removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: bcm: fix stale rx/tx ops after device removal\n\nRX: an RX_SETUP update(!) for an existing op skipped can_rx_register()\nunconditionally, even when a concurrent NETDEV_UNREGISTER had already\ntorn down its registration (op-\u003erx_reg_dev == NULL). This silently\ndid not re-enable frame delivery for that updated filter. bcm_rx_setup()\nnow re-registers in that case, while leaving rx_ops with ifindex = 0\n(all CAN devices) which never carry a tracked rx_reg_dev registered as-is.\n\nTX: bcm_notify() only handled bo-\u003erx_ops on NETDEV_UNREGISTER, leaving\ntx_ops with an active cyclic transmission re-arming its hrtimer\nindefinitely to execute bcm_tx_timeout_handler(). Cancelling the hrtimer\nprevents the runaway timer and any injection into a later reused ifindex,\nsince nothing else calls bcm_can_tx() for the op until an explicit\nTX_SETUP update re-arms it.\n\nUnlike bcm_rx_unreg(), which clears the tracked rx_reg_dev for rx_ops,\nthe ifindex is intentionally left unchanged for tx_ops. bcm_tx_setup()\nalways rejects ifindex 0, so clearing it would strand the op: neither a\nlater TX_SETUP (bcm_find_op()) nor TX_DELETE (bcm_delete_tx_op()) could\never find it again, since both require an exact ifindex match."
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