CVE-2017-18551

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.15. There is an out of bounds write in the function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated.

References

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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00066.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00064.html

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K48073202?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=89c6efa61f5709327ecfa24bff18e57a4e80c7fa

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-9667

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.15

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-08-19

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H