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Change History

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 i

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3937c35493ee2847aaefcfa5460e94b7443eef49 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9443ddeb3754e9e382a396b50adc1961301713ce [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a5f471ae380f9fcb9756d453c12ca1f8595a93c [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a37960df7eac3cc8094bd1ab84864e9e32c91345 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0689e46be23160d925dca95dfc411f1a0462708 [No types assigned]