# CVE-2026-5071: can: Local Denial of Service via SocketCAN Send

- Also known as: GHSA-C3W6-X7M3-3C58
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.7.2, 4.2.2, 4.3.1
- Published: 2026-05-30 · Updated: 2026-10-15

## Affected

- Zephyr: from \*, fixed in 3.7.2; from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.2.2; from 4.3.0, fixed in 4.3.1

## Description

The SocketCAN implementation validates the length of a user-provided buffer containing a socketcan_frame object using only a NET_ASSERT statement in zcan_sendto_ctx() before dereferencing it in socketcan_to_can_frame(). In production builds where assertions are disabled, a userspace application that controls the length passed to a sendto syscall can supply an incomplete or truncated frame, causing socketcan_to_can_frame() to dereference fields beyond the end of the buffer. This results in an out-of-bounds read that can cause denial-of-service crashes or, because the parsed frame contents are transmitted on the network, leak adjacent memory.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Zephyr, upgrade to a fixed version (3.7.2, 4.2.2, 4.3.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-c3w6-x7m3-3c58

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