CVE-2010-2959
Integer overflow in net/can/bcm.c in the Controller Area Network (CAN) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.53, 2.6.32.x…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 3.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Integer overflow in net/can/bcm.c in the Controller Area Network (CAN) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.53, 2.6.32.x before 2.6.32.21, 2.6.34.x before 2.6.34.6, and 2.6.35.x before 2.6.35.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted CAN traffic.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Linux Kernel < 2.6.36-rc1 (Ubuntu 10.04 / 2.6.32) - 'CAN BCM' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 14814local, linuxpublished 27 Aug 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By canonical
- 35 days later
· 35 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
18
- SUSE-SA:2010:041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34.6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42585 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-13903 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2010:198 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.53 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2430 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2011:007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5b75c4973ce779520b9d1e392483207d6f842cde (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2094 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100820 kernel: can: add limit for nframes and clean up signed/unsigned variables (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625699 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://jon.oberheide.org/files/i-can-haz-modharden.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.21 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 41512 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-2963 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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