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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64191" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-20T16:27:51.120Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:28:15.069Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64191" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64191.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64191" title: "i2c: stub: Reject I2C block transfers with invalid length" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: stub: Reject I2C block transfers with invalid length\n\nThe I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA case in stub_xfer() uses data-\u003eblock[0]\nas the transfer length. The existing check only clamps it to avoid\noverrunning the chip-\u003ewords[256] register array, but does not validate\nit against I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which is the limit of the union\ni2c_smbus_data.block buffer (34 bytes total). The driver is a\ndevelopment/test tool (CONFIG_I2C_STUB=m, not built by default)\nthat must be loaded with a chip_addr= parameter.\n\nA local user with access to /dev/i2c-* can issue an I2C_SMBUS ioctl\nwith I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA and data-\u003eblock[0] \u003e 32, causing\nstub_xfer() to read or write past the end of the union\ni2c_smbus_data.block buffer:\n\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in stub_xfer (drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c:223)\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff88800abcfd92 by task exploit/81\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n stub_xfer (drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c:223)\n __i2c_smbus_xfer (drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c:593)\n i2c_smbus_xfer (drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c:536)\n i2cdev_ioctl_smbus (drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:391)\n i2cdev_ioctl (drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:478)\n __x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:583)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe bug exists because i2c-stub implements .smbus_xfer directly,\nbypassing the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX validation in\ni2c_smbus_xfer_emulated(). The I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA case in the same\nfunction correctly validates against I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX, but the\nI2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA case does not.\n\nFix by rejecting transfers with data-\u003eblock[0] == 0 or\ndata-\u003eblock[0] \u003e I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX with -EINVAL, consistent with\nboth the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA case in the same function and the\nI2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA validation in i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e9072dbd5f2f17934751873450d2c22080ead80"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"21e87f336ac6303fed54a69b1d0d79a23b25c8d0"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3fd225f3e4cd67ec8ddab1afed9da03c7c43537c"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c4ffe6b4f04365485ed58d64c9bb86b46fc9037"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bd8635f28c135a08aac6badcd7d9b5cdb34335f"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f4d2bd028ebb6e4c09a9d64842546022321d4a7"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0526931b16e5a118d367b7bfce7d797e63f7ac69"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6036b5067a8199ba7a2dc7b377d4b9dd276d5f9e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.33","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.33"},{"version":"5.10.260","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.211","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.144","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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