Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLS-7504464
- published 17 Jul 2024
- disclosed 16 Jul 2024
Introduced: 16 Jul 2024
CVE-2022-48806 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-48806
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3937c35493ee2847aaefcfa5460e94b7443eef49
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9443ddeb3754e9e382a396b50adc1961301713ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a5f471ae380f9fcb9756d453c12ca1f8595a93c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a37960df7eac3cc8094bd1ab84864e9e32c91345
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0689e46be23160d925dca95dfc411f1a0462708