CVE-2025-39680 (GCVE-0-2025-39680)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-05 17:20 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:04
VLAI
Title
i2c: rtl9300: Fix out-of-bounds bug in rtl9300_i2c_smbus_xfer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: rtl9300: Fix out-of-bounds bug in rtl9300_i2c_smbus_xfer The data->block[0] variable comes from user. Without proper check, the variable may be very large to cause an out-of-bounds bug. Fix this bug by checking the value of data->block[0] first. 1. commit 39244cc75482 ("i2c: ismt: Fix an out-of-bounds bug in ismt_access()") 2. commit 92fbb6d1296f ("i2c: xgene-slimpro: Fix out-of-bounds bug in xgene_slimpro_i2c_xfer()")
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c366be720235301fdadf67e6f1ea6ff32669c074 , < 071e43fcba5ddd9a7813e6cc0aa10299eae41b21 (git)
Affected: c366be720235301fdadf67e6f1ea6ff32669c074 , < 57f312b955938fc4663f430cb57a71f2414f601b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.4 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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