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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93287" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:02:11.296Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:57:13.466Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-93287" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93287.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93287" title: "i2c: smbus: reject oversized block transfers in the common path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: smbus: reject oversized block transfers in the common path\n\nThe SMBus block transfer length data-\u003eblock[0] is validated in\ni2c_smbus_xfer_emulated() but that check runs too late for tracepoints\nand is skipped entirely when the adapter provides a native smbus_xfer\nimplementation. This allows user-controlled oversized block lengths to\nreach tracepoint memcpy calls and driver callbacks unchecked.\n\nAdd an early validation in __i2c_smbus_xfer() that rejects block\ntransfers whose caller-supplied length is zero or exceeds\nI2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX before any tracepoint fires or driver callback\nruns. data-\u003eblock[0] is filled in by the device on SMBus block reads,\nso the check is scoped to operations where the length is actually\nsupplied by the caller. This is consistent with the existing -EINVAL\nconvention in the emulated path and protects all downstream consumers\nat once: the smbus_write tracepoint, all native smbus_xfer driver\nimplementations, and the emulated path.\n\nTwo distinct bugs are fixed by this change:\n\nBug 1: smbus_write tracepoint OOB (include/trace/events/smbus.h)\n trace_smbus_write() fires before any validation and copies\n data-\u003eblock[0]+1 bytes into a 34-byte event buffer. With\n block[0]=0xfe the tracepoint copies 255 bytes, overflowing by 221.\n\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in trace_event_raw_event_smbus_write+0x27c/0x530\n Read of size 255 at addr ffff88800d98fcf8 by task poc_smbus/91\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x80\n trace_event_raw_event_smbus_write+0x27c/0x530\n __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x43a/0xa40\n i2c_smbus_xfer+0x19e/0x340\n i2cdev_ioctl_smbus+0x38f/0x7f0\n i2cdev_ioctl+0x35e/0x680\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x147/0x1e0\n do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x15a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nBug 2: i2c-stub I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA OOB (drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c)\n stub_xfer() implements .smbus_xfer directly and only clamps\n block[0] against 256-command, not I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX. With\n block[0]=0xff and command=0 the loop accesses block[1+i] for\n i up to 254, far past the 34-byte union.\n\n UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c:223:44\n index 34 is out of range for type '__u8 [34]'\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0xd7/0x120\n stub_xfer+0x1971/0x198f [i2c_stub]\n __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x306/0xa40\n i2c_smbus_xfer+0x19e/0x340\n i2cdev_ioctl_smbus+0x38f/0x7f0\n i2cdev_ioctl+0x35e/0x680\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x147/0x1e0\n do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x15a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nBoth traces reproduced on v7.0-rc6+i2c/for-current with KASAN+UBSAN." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"856dffcc097b3d8ed45a643ebda07cb92968cb33"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"356875e33f2c6d2061a02c9dec1a1e639d265a55"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72ca5e0b8b7a62615758f8871c34d61616c2dc8b"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df077253f6405d67ad087538e495ef32a05717b7"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f09edffba97d37b1fdff5f818a9a45f8a98ac171"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4b478bc50b7ca9865e237909941253a0f7111a2"},{"version":"4710317891e4824ce1510a6b5066abbd3e917750","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3051cd060fa496df42954291fa2306ed2eab4ecc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.33","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.33"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"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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