CVE-2022-3077

high

Published 2023-01-23 · Modified 2023-01-24

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel’s iSMT SMBus host controller driver in the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data. This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`5.18.2-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`5.18.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`5.18.2-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`5.18.2-1`
rocky	9	fixed
almalinux	9	fixed	`kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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