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  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: bcm: defer rx_op deallocation to workqueue to fix thrtimer UAF\n\nCommit f1b4e32aca08 (\"can: bcm: use call_rcu() instead of costly\nsynchronize_rcu()\") replaced synchronize_rcu() in bcm_delete_rx_op()\nwith call_rcu() and introduced the RX_NO_AUTOTIMER flag.\n\nHowever, this flag check was omitted for thrtimer in the packet rx\nfast-path. During BCM RX operation teardown, a concurrent RCU reader\n(bcm_rx_handler) can race and re-arm thrtimer via\nbcm_rx_update_and_send() after call_rcu() has been scheduled.  Once\nthe RCU grace period elapses, bcm_op is freed.  The subsequently\nfiring thrtimer then dereferences the deallocated op, causing a UAF.\n\nAdding flag checks to the rx fast-path (bcm_rx_update_and_send) does not\nfully close the TOCTOU race and introduces latency for every CAN frame.\nConversely, calling hrtimer_cancel() directly inside the RCU callback\n(softirq context) is fatal as hrtimer_cancel() can sleep, triggering\na \"scheduling while atomic\" panic.\n\nResolve this by deferring the timer cancellation and memory free to a\ndedicated unbound workqueue (bcm_wq).  The RCU callback now queues a\nwork item to bcm_wq, which safely cancels both timers and deallocates\nmemory in sleepable process context.  A dedicated workqueue is used to\nprevent system-wide WQ saturation and is cleanly flushed/destroyed\non module unload to avoid rmmod page faults.\n\nSince the deferred work can now outlive the calling context by an\nunbounded amount, also take a reference on op-\u003esk when it is assigned\nand drop it only once the deferred work has cancelled both timers, so a\nsocket can no longer be freed out from under a still-armed timer whose\ncallback (bcm_send_to_user()) dereferences op-\u003esk.",
  "id": "CVE-2026-72123",
  "modified": "2026-08-21T03:30:18.093458742Z",
  "published": "2026-08-15T05:53:01.433Z",
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