CVE-2022-3077

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel’s iSMT SMBus host controller driver in the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data. In particular, the userspace controllable "data->block[0]" variable was not capped to a number between 0-255 and then used as the size of a memcpy, thus possibly writing beyond the end of dma_buffer. This flaw could allow a privileged local user to crash the system.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and 8 are not affected by this issue as they did not include support for I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL (upstream commit 5e9a97b).

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

This flaw can be mitigated by preventing the i2c-ismt module from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for information on how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from being loaded automatically.