CVE-2022-48806 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-48806

eeprom: ee1004: limit i2c reads to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
aca56c298e2a6d20ab6308e203a8d37f2a7759d3, 25714ad6bf5e98025579fa4c08ff2041a663910c, be9313f755a7bfa02230b15731d07074d5255ecb, 07d9beb6e3c2e852e884113d6803ea4b3643ae38, effa453168a7eeb8a562ff4edc1dbf9067360a61, 74650c34f93044d3ab441235f161f9e1e761e96b, a126a8c3dd51519513141b4fc94fd4813bca2c0f, 202d0e22fe512df0f1cb6253d40ce1058e373247, 7414af7bdad9a9cddb3a765ca98ea207048618c5, 4.4.300, 4.9.298, 4.14.263, 4.19.226, 5.4.174, 5.10.94, 5.15.17, 5.16.3

Timeline

Official Publish: July 16th, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.