# CVE-2024-56625: can: dev: can_set_termination(): allow sleeping GPIOs

> A kernel warning triggered by sleeping GPIOs in the CAN termination driver can cause system instability or crashes on embedded devices using I2C port expanders.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-56625, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56625, GHSA-h6p5-h73r-mpjh, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56625

## What is CVE-2024-56625?

CVE-2024-56625 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: dev: can_set_termination(): allow sleeping GPIOs

In commit 6e86a1543c37 ("can: dev: provide optional GPIO based
termination support") GPIO based termination support was added.

For no particular reason that patch uses gpiod_set_value() to set the
GPIO. This leads to the following warning, if the systems uses a
sleeping GPIO, i.e. behind an I2C port expander:

| WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 379 at /drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3496 gpiod_set_value+0x50/0x6c
| CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 379 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.11.0-20241016-1 #1 823affae360cc91126e4d316d7a614a8bf86236c

Replace gpiod_set_value() by gpiod_set_value_cansleep() to allow the
use of sleeping GPIOs.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56625?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-56625?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-56625 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56625 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-56625 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-56625 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56625 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56625/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56625/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56625
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56625
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-56625

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