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CVE-2021-3609
HIGH · CVSS 7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-03-03T19:15:08.173 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:05:26.027

Summary

.A flaw was found in the CAN BCM networking protocol in the Linux kernel, where a local attacker can abuse a flaw in the CAN subsystem to corrupt memory, crash the system or escalate privileges. This race condition in net/can/bcm.c in the Linux kernel allows for local privilege escalation to root.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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