CVE-2022-48806: eeprom: ee1004: limit i2c reads to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 4.4.300 before 4.5; from 4.9.298 before 4.10; from 4.14.263 before 4.15; from 4.19.226 before 4.20; from 5.4.174 before 5.4.180; from 5.10.94 before 5.10.101 — fixed in 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 4.5, 5.10.101, 5.15.24

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.10, 4.15, 4.20, 4.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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