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Tracker / CVE-2022-48806

CVE-2022-48806

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eeprom: ee1004: limit i2c reads to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX Commit effa453168a7 ("i2c: i801: Don't silently correct invalid transfer size") revealed that ee1004_eeprom_read() did not properly limit how many bytes to read at once. In particular, i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data_or_emulated() takes the length to read as an u8. If count == 256 after taking into account the offset and page boundary, the cast to u8 overflows. And this is common when user space tries to read the entire EEPROM at once. To fix it, limit each read to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32) bytes, already the maximum length i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data_or_emulated() allows.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.14.263 → 4.15
linux linux_kernel · 4.19.226 → 4.20
linux linux_kernel · 4.4.300 → 4.5
linux linux_kernel · 4.9.298 → 4.10
linux linux_kernel · 5.10.94 → 5.10.101
linux linux_kernel · 5.15.17 → 5.15.24
linux linux_kernel · 5.16.3 → 5.16.10
linux linux_kernel · 5.4.174 → 5.4.180

Analysis

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