CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46001
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.12.86)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.27)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24c73e93d6a756e1b8626bb259d2e07c5b89b370 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7eccabff1c9ec15e4b6fe186d5c147b13a9cdb4e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95d48e37a1304d6148406c799479c0fb505aefa7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a11aa9c5fd9dfe62be7cfec1f2a7546afb77254c Patch