can: esd_usb: kill anchored URBs before freeing netdevs
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: esd_usb: kill anchored URBs before freeing netdevs esd_usb_disconnect() frees each CAN netdev with free_candev() inside its per-netdev loop and only calls unlink_all_urbs(dev) afterwards. The per-netdev private data (struct esd_usb_net_priv) is embedded in the net_device allocation returned by alloc_candev(), so once free_candev() has run, dev->nets[i] points to freed memory. unlink_all_urbs() then dereferences the freed dev->nets[i] to kill the per-netdev TX anchor (usb_kill_anchored_urbs(&priv->tx_submitted)), clear active_tx_jobs, and reset priv->tx_contexts[]. Reorder the teardown so the anchored URBs are killed before the netdevs are freed, matching other CAN/USB drivers in the same directory such as ems_usb, usb_8dev and mcba_usb, which unregister, then unlink, then free: unregister the netdevs first (which stops their TX queues), call unlink_all_urbs(dev) once, then free the netdevs. This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.217, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-64585
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-88mv-jf2p-hpm8
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d12f6add48f2da15c8c8281961d3faad804c76cf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa1d005927db38af783c1a4a8a00a39e0229ab2d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a02e1d8f191324583599544d54e59e6a2b74bb0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3314f10369df70925140f59bbe069718f65a0b9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/765ba1c91823a296447528791b89a6504947fd5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5832c55b3c824ba2fe9c36ac3c411baddcce053e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c43122fef328a70045fe7621c06de6b2b8e19264
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Sources
- CVE-2026-64585 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-64585 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-88mv-jf2p-hpm8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-64585 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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