CVE-2022-48806

eeprom: ee1004: limit i2c reads to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX

published July 16, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00283 · 19.8th percentile
Published
2024-07-16T11:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 11:43Z
    eeprom: ee1004: limit i2c reads to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX
    cvelistv5