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CVE-2026-17523 (GCVE-0-2026-17523)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 08:58 – Updated: 2026-09-10 13:31
VLAI
Title
can: bcm: switch timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT and remove hrtimer_tasklet
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: bcm: switch timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT and remove hrtimer_tasklet This patch switches the timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT, which executed the timer callback in softirq context and removes the hrtimer_tasklet.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 13:44 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c53a6ee88b0a91bd012ef1b7988c0b93dae6f24d , < 79305a826f872fe446c6fbf8450f515053ef6951 (git)
Affected: c53a6ee88b0a91bd012ef1b7988c0b93dae6f24d , < bf74aa86e111aa3b2fbb25db37e3a3fab71b5b68 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.29
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.29 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.226 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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