CVE-2022-48806
MEDIUMLinux kernel - Integer Overflow in ee1004 EEPROM Read via i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data_or_emulated
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0028
EPSS Percentile
19.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-190
Status
published
Products (19)
Linux/Linux
07d9beb6e3c2e852e884113d6803ea4b3643ae38 - 9443ddeb3754e9e382a396b50adc1961301713ce
Linux/Linux
202d0e22fe512df0f1cb6253d40ce1058e373247
Linux/Linux
25714ad6bf5e98025579fa4c08ff2041a663910c - a37960df7eac3cc8094bd1ab84864e9e32c91345
Linux/Linux
4.14.263 - 4.15
Linux/Linux
4.19.226 - 4.20
Linux/Linux
4.4.300 - 4.5
Linux/Linux
4.9.298 - 4.10
Linux/Linux
5.10.94 - 5.10.101
Linux/Linux
5.15.17 - 5.15.24
Linux/Linux
5.16.3 - 5.16.10
... and 9 more
Published
Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026