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Unfortunately, the interrupt handler (i801_isr) is not\nprepared for this situation and will try to process the interrupt as\nif it was signaling the end of a successful transaction. In the case\nof a block transaction, this can result in an out-of-range memory\naccess.\n\nThis condition was reproduced several times by syzbot:\nhttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ed71512d469895b5b34e\nhttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8c8dedc0ba9e03f6c79e\nhttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c8ff0b6d6c73d81b610e\nhttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33f6c360821c399d69eb\nhttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=be15dc0b1933f04b043a\nhttps://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b4d3fd1dfd53e90afd79\n\nSo disable interrupts while trying to reset the bus. Interrupts will\nbe enabled again for the following transaction." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable path is reached locally via /dev/i2c-* I2C_SMBUS ioctls into i801_access → i801_block_transaction_byte_by_byte → i801_check_post; it is not reachable from network packet processing or physical SMBus injection.\nAC:L - An attacker who can open the adapter can issue block SMBus transactions and force wait_event_timeout to expire (including via I2C_TIMEOUT), reliably hitting the KILL path that leaves INTREN set; syzbot reproduced this repeatedly with no attacker-uncontrollable race required.\nPR:L - i2cdev_open() performs no capability check—access is only DAC on /dev/i2c-*. On realistic worst-case deployments (i2c group or similarly relaxed permissions on developer/embedded/x86 systems with Intel PCH SMBus), a non-root local user can reach the path.\nUI:N - The attacker opens the device and issues the ioctls themselves; no separate victim action is required.\nS:U - Impact is ordinary in-kernel stack/memory corruption within the host kernel authority, not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or other cross-boundary breakout.\nC:H - The ISR performs out-of-range accesses on the block buffer (KASAN OOB reads) and related crashes show use-after-free of that buffer; this class of memory corruption is scored as enabling high confidentiality impact under the higher-severity rule.\nI:H - Syzbot also hit out-of-bounds/use-after-free writes in i801_isr_byte_done for the same root cause (KILL-generated interrupt while INTREN remains set), giving stack/heap corruption exploitable for control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - The memory-safety failure reliably produces kernel oops/KASAN 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