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CVE-2019-3701 json

An issue was discovered in can_can_gw_rcv in net/can/gw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13.

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-13336

cvss
4.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in can_can_gw_rcv in net/can/gw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. The CAN frame modification rules allow bitwise logical operations that can be also applied to the can_dlc field. The privileged user "root" with CAP_NET_ADMIN can create a CAN frame modification rule that makes the data length code a higher value than the available CAN frame data size. In combination with a configured checksum calculation where the result is stored relatively to the end of the data (e.g. cgw_csum_xor_rel) the tail of the skb (e.g. frag_list pointer in skb_shared_info) can be rewritten which finally can cause a system crash. Because of a missing check, the CAN drivers may write arbitrary content beyond the data registers in the CAN controller's I/O memory when processing can-gw manipulated outgoing frames.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.19.20-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-3701

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-145.171
  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-60.67
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-1040.43
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1079.89
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1047.49
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1041.43
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1042.45
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-60.67~16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3701

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 4.12.14-150.52.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 4.12.14-150.52.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE Live Patching 15 +3 more 4.12.14-150.52.1
  • kernel-vanilla SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 4.12.14-150.52.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 4.12.14-150.52.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +1 more 4.4.121-92.129.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +1 more 4.4.121-92.129.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +2 more 4.4.121-92.129.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1663-1SUSE-SU-2020:1255-1SUSE-SU-2020:1275-1SUSE-SU-2020:1146-1SUSE-SU-2020:1142-1SUSE-SU-2020:1141-1

  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.48.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.48.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.48.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.48.1
  • kernel-vanilla openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.48.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.48.1
  • kernel-obs-build openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.14-lp151.28.48.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0543-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-3701 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: Missing check in net/can/gw.c:can_can_gw_rcv() allows for crash by users with CAP_NET_ADMIN

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.suse.com https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120386 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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Sources

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