hwmon: (pt5161l) Fix bugs in pt5161l_read_block_data() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-46001
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (pt5161l) Fix bugs in pt5161l_read_block_data() Fix two bugs in pt5161l_read_block_data(): 1. Buffer overrun: The local buffer rbuf is declared as u8 rbuf[24], but i2c_smbus_read_block_data() can return up to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32) bytes. The i2c-core copies the data into the caller's buffer before the return value can be checked, so the post-read length validation does not prevent a stack overrun if a device returns more than 24 bytes. Resize the buffer to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX. 2. Unexpected positive return on length mismatch: When all three retries are exhausted because the device returns data with an unexpected length, i2c_smbus_read_block_data() returns a positive byte count. The function returns this directly, and callers treat any non-negative return as success, processing stale or incomplete buffer contents. Return -EIO when retries are exhausted with a positive return value, preserving the negative error code on I2C failure.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1b2ca93cd0592b1fcbc6f8b64e02552bc15f4bb4 < 7eccabff1c9ec15e4b6fe186d5c147b13a9cdb4e ; affected 1b2ca93cd0592b1fcbc6f8b64e02552bc15f4bb4 < 95d48e37a1304d6148406c799479c0fb505aefa7 ; affected 1b2ca93cd0592b1fcbc6f8b64e02552bc15f4bb4 < a11aa9c5fd9dfe62be7cfec1f2a7546afb77254c ; affected 1b2ca93cd0592b1fcbc6f8b64e02552bc15f4bb4 < 24c73e93d6a756e1b8626bb259d2e07c5b89b370
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.9 ; unaffected 0 < 6.9 ; unaffected 6.12.86 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.27 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.0.4 ≤ 7.0.* ; unaffected 7.1 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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