linux — security advisory

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  "id": "26def9d551cdb71a4277323c882c743afe78a1ec52be924bcf9c329471a65644",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50394",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50394",
    "summary": "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. The following log can reveal it: [ 33.995542] i2c i2c-1: ioctl, cmd=0x720, arg=0x7ffcb3dc3a20 [ 33.995978] ismt_smbus 0000:00:05.0: I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA: WRITE [ 33.996475] ================================================================== [ 33.996995] BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in ismt_access.cold+0x374/0x214b [ 33.997473] Read of size 18446744073709551615 at addr ffff88810efcfdb1 by task ismt_poc/485 [ 33.999450] Call Trace: [ 34.001849] memcpy+0x20/0x60 [ 34.002077] ismt_access.cold+0x374/0x214b [ 34.003382] __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x44f/0xfb0 [ 34.004007] i2c_smbus_xfer+0x10a/0x390 [ 34.004291] i2cdev_ioctl_smbus+0x2c8/0x710 [ 34.005196] i2cdev_ioctl+0x5ec/0x74c Fix this bug by checking the size of 'data->block[0]' first.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50394",
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      "modified": "2026-10-15T08:03:09.016089738Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2022-50394"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-50394"
      ]
    },
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 325361,
  "published_at": "2025-09-18T14:15:38.49+00:00"
}