From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Carlos López" <clopez@suse.de>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2021-46934: i2c: validate user data in compat ioctl
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:06:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024022720-derived-impish-d245@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94330624-1f8b-49b8-8a66-b7adf1f589f4@suse.de>
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 02:33:50PM +0100, Carlos López wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 27/2/24 10:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Description
> > ===========
> >
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> >
> > i2c: validate user data in compat ioctl
> >
> > Wrong user data may cause warning in i2c_transfer(), ex: zero msgs.
> > Userspace should not be able to trigger warnings, so this patch adds
> > validation checks for user data in compact ioctl to prevent reported
> > warnings
>
> What's the security impact here exactly?
Userspace should never be able to trigger kernel warnings.
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2024-02-27 13:33 ` Carlos López
2024-02-27 14:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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