# 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-2026-72125"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:02.905Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:44:57.938Z"
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-2026-72125"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72125.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72125"
title: "can: isotp: fix use-after-free race with concurrent NETDEV_UNREGISTER"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: isotp: fix use-after-free race with concurrent NETDEV_UNREGISTER\n\nisotp_release() looked up the bound network device via dev_get_by_index()\nusing the stored ifindex. During device unregistration the device is\nunlisted from the ifindex hash before the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier\nchain runs, so a concurrent isotp_release() could find no device, skip\ncan_rx_unregister() entirely, and still proceed to free the socket.\nSince isotp_release() had already removed itself from the isotp\nnotifier list at that point, isotp_notify() would never get a chance to\nclean up either, leaving a stale CAN filter that keeps pointing at the\nfreed socket.\n\nFix this the same way raw.c already does: hold a tracked reference to\nthe bound net_device in the socket (so-\u003edev/so-\u003edev_tracker) from\nbind() onward instead of re-resolving it from the ifindex, and\nserialize bind()/release() with rtnl_lock() so that so-\u003edev is always\nconsistent with what the NETDEV_UNREGISTER notifier sees. so-\u003edev\nstays valid regardless of ifindex-hash unlisting, and is only ever\ncleared by whichever of isotp_release()/isotp_notify() gets there\nfirst, so the filter is always removed exactly once.\n\nisotp_bind() now rejects a (re)bind with -EAGAIN while so-\u003e[tx|rx].state\nisn't ISOTP_IDLE yet, so a timer left running by a prior\nNETDEV_UNREGISTER can't act on a newly bound so-\u003eifindex. Both checks\nshare the same lock_sock() section, so there is no window in which a\nconcurrent isotp_notify() clearing so-\u003ebound could be missed."
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