{"id":"CVE-2022-50394","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-50394","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:45:59.357Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: ismt: Fix an out-of-bounds bug in ismt_access() When the driver does not check the data from the user, the variable 'data->block[0]' may be very large to cause an out-of-bounds bug.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: ismt: Fix an out-of-bounds bug in ismt_access()\n\nWhen the driver does not check the data from the user, the variable\n'data->block[0]' may be very large to cause an out-of-bounds bug.\n\nThe following log can reveal it:\n\n[   33.995542] i2c i2c-1: ioctl, cmd=0x720, arg=0x7ffcb3dc3a20\n[   33.995978] ismt_smbus 0000:00:05.0: I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA:  WRITE\n[   33.996475] ==================================================================\n[   33.996995] BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in ismt_access.cold+0x374/0x214b\n[   33.997473] Read of size 18446744073709551615 at addr ffff88810efcfdb1 by task ismt_poc/485\n[   33.999450] Call Trace:\n[   34.001849]  memcpy+0x20/0x60\n[   34.002077]  ismt_access.cold+0x374/0x214b\n[   34.003382]  __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x44f/0xfb0\n[   34.004007]  i2c_smbus_xfer+0x10a/0x390\n[   34.004291]  i2cdev_ioctl_smbus+0x2c8/0x710\n[   34.005196]  i2cdev_ioctl+0x5ec/0x74c\n\nFix this bug by checking the size of 'data->block[0]' first.","published":"2025-09-18T14:15:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T10:18:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00171,"percentile":0.06481,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03b7ef7a6c5ca1ff553470166b4919db88b810f6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/233348a04becf133283f0076e20b317302de21d9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39244cc754829bf707dccd12e2ce37510f5b1f8d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a7bb1d93addb2f67e36fed00a53cb7f270d7b7a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96c12fd0ec74641295e1c3c34dea3dce1b6c3422","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ac541a0898e8ec187a3fa7024b9701cffae6bf2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a642469d464b2780a25a49b51ae56623c65eac34","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfe41d966c860a8ad4c735639d616da270c92735","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdcbae2c5003747ddfd14e29db9c1d5d7e7c44dd","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50394","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}