CVE-2022-48806
Published: Jul 16, 2024
Modified: May 23, 2026
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected aca56c298e2a6d20ab6308e203a8d37f2a7759d3 - < 3937c35493ee2847aaefcfa5460e94b7443eef49affected 25714ad6bf5e98025579fa4c08ff2041a663910c - < a37960df7eac3cc8094bd1ab84864e9e32c91345affected be9313f755a7bfa02230b15731d07074d5255ecb - < 9a5f471ae380f9fcb9756d453c12ca1f8595a93caffected 07d9beb6e3c2e852e884113d6803ea4b3643ae38 - < 9443ddeb3754e9e382a396b50adc1961301713ceaffected effa453168a7eeb8a562ff4edc1dbf9067360a61 - < c0689e46be23160d925dca95dfc411f1a0462708+8 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.4.174 - < 5.4.180affected 5.10.94 - < 5.10.101affected 5.15.17 - < 5.15.24affected 5.16.3 - < 5.16.10 |
References
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