CVE-2026-52948

i2c: dev: prevent integer overflow in I2C_TIMEOUT ioctl

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i2c: dev: prevent integer overflow in I2C_TIMEOUT ioctl

While fuzzing with Syzkaller, a persistent `schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value` warning was observed, accompanied by SMBus controller state machine corruption.

The I2C_TIMEOUT ioctl accepts a user-provided timeout in multiples of 10 ms. The user argument is checked against INT_MAX, but it is subsequently multiplied by 10 before being passed to msecs_to_jiffies().

A malicious user can pass a large value (e.g., 429496729) that passes the `arg > INT_MAX` check but overflows when multiplied by 10. This results in a truncated 32-bit unsigned value that bypasses the internal `(int)m < 0` check in `msecs_to_jiffies()`.

The truncated value is then assigned to `client->adapter->timeout` (a signed 32-bit int), which is reinterpreted as a negative number. When passed to wait_for_completion_timeout(), this negative value undergoes sign extension to a 64-bit unsigned long, triggering the `schedule_timeout` warning and causing premature returns. This leaves the SMBus state machine in an unrecoverable state, constituting a local Denial of Service (DoS).

Fix this by bounding the user argument to `INT_MAX / 10`.

[wsa: move the comment as well]

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before e9ffd5f5050fbb199d270a85614cd27ebed6fbacAffected
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before 0b88ecfbc9dc33b4db8836c37b50cf174e6c0691Affected
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before 943e318eedbeaeea08ece3f5dd44c982f4ed2ef5Affected
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before aa6ef734016912653a909477fb30aeb66c98b3a2Affected
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before ff02add34ffd03449b8115904ebe2ec4fed022d4Affected
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before ffbcf31f032eb454ebfd29309f51366fe57f4ac4Affected
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before 4576621dc6577f21a032acfd16c3ad61907a5ea7Affected
  • cd97f39b7cdf1c8a9c9f52865eec795b7f0c811d to before 617eb7c0961a8dfcfc811844a6396e406b2923eaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.29Affected
  • before 2.6.29Not affected
  • 5.10.259 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.210 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.176 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.143 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.94 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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