CVE-2021-46934 (GCVE-0-2021-46934)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-27 09:44 – Updated: 2025-05-04 07:00
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Summary
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
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Linux Linux Affected: 7d5cb45655f2e9e37ef75d18f50c0072ef14a38b , < 407c8708fb1bf2d4afc5337ef50635cf540c364b (git)
Affected: 7d5cb45655f2e9e37ef75d18f50c0072ef14a38b , < 9e4a3f47eff476097e0c7faac04d1831fc70237d (git)
Affected: 7d5cb45655f2e9e37ef75d18f50c0072ef14a38b , < 8d31cbab4c295d7010ebb729e9d02d0e9cece18f (git)
Affected: 7d5cb45655f2e9e37ef75d18f50c0072ef14a38b , < f68599581067e8a5a8901ba9eb270b4519690e26 (git)
Affected: 7d5cb45655f2e9e37ef75d18f50c0072ef14a38b , < bb436283e25aaf1533ce061605d23a9564447bdf (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.224 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.170 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.90 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.13 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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