CVE-2026-72120

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luck.\nPR:L - PF_CAN CAN_BCM sockets are created and connected without capability checks; RX_SETUP works with ifindex 0 (no bound CAN device), so any unprivileged local user can create ops and race procfs reads on automotive, industrial, and embedded systems with CONFIG_CAN_BCM.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required; the attacker drives the full exploit sequence (socket setup, opcode installation, proc reads, and socket teardown) from their own local process threads.\nS:U - The use-after-free corrupts kernel heap memory within the same kernel security domain; impact is local privilege escalation or crash, not crossing a VM, container, or IOMMU security boundary.\nC:H - bcm_proc_show dereferences bcm_op fields (can_id, flags, timers, counters) from list entries that may already be freed via call_rcu in bcm_remove_op, enabling kernel heap memory disclosure and further exploitation primitives.\nI:H - Freed bcm_op structures are kmalloc heap objects containing list_head links, sock 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