[PATCH net] can: can327: Fix stack out-of-bounds write in can327_handle_prompt()
From: Baul Lee
Date: Wed Aug 19 2026 - 01:42:09 EST
can327_handle_prompt() hexdumps the frame queued for transmission, two
hex characters per payload byte, into an 18-byte on-stack buffer sized
for a classical 8-byte payload. The loop runs frame->len times without a
clamp, and frame is a struct can_frame copied verbatim from the skb
passed to can327_netdev_start_xmit().
A CAN XL frame aliases struct can_frame such that canxl_frame.flags,
which must carry CANXL_XLF, overlaps can_frame.len, so it arrives with
frame->len == 0x80. can327 is a classical CAN device, but
can_dev_dropped_skb() only rejects CAN FD for a non-FD device; for
ETH_P_CANXL, can_dropped_invalid_skb() checks only that the frame is a
well-formed CAN XL frame, not that the device supports one. The smallest
such frame, CANXL_HDR_SIZE + CANXL_MIN_DLEN, is 13 bytes, so it also
passes the MTU check on a CAN_MTU device. CAN_RAW rejects it, as
raw_check_txframe() requires CAN_CAP_XL, but an AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW
socket does not go through that check.
The loop then writes 128 hex pairs over the buffer and past the end of
the stack frame:
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in vsnprintf+0x550/0x83c
Write of size 1 at addr ffff800085407a32 by task kworker/u18:0/36
Call trace:
vsnprintf+0x550/0x83c
snprintf+0xa4/0xe0
can327_handle_prompt+0x5c4/0x69c
can327_parse_rxbuf+0x618/0xb50
can327_ldisc_rx+0x118/0x1c0
tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0xc0/0xe0
flush_to_ldisc+0x11c/0x278
This frame has 1 object:
[32, 50) 'local_txbuf'
Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted
in: can327_handle_prompt+0x66c/0x69c
Clamp the dump to CAN_MAX_DLEN, which is what the buffer is sized for.
Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: fb08cba12b52 ("can: canxl: update CAN infrastructure for CAN XL frames")
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/can/can327.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/can327.c b/drivers/net/can/can327.c
index 90f5e35f3c8f..396db56775a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/can327.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/can327.c
@@ -624,9 +624,10 @@ static void can327_handle_prompt(struct can327 *elm)
snprintf(local_txbuf, sizeof(local_txbuf), "ATRTR\r");
} else {
/* Send a regular CAN data frame */
+ int dlc = min_t(int, frame->len, CAN_MAX_DLEN);
int i;
- for (i = 0; i < frame->len; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < dlc; i++) {
snprintf(&local_txbuf[2 * i],
sizeof(local_txbuf), "%02X",
frame->data[i]);
--
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