CVE-2021-46934 (GCVE-0-2021-46934)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 09:44
Modified
2025-05-04 07:00
Severity ?
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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