Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: gyro: itg3200: fix i2c read into the wrong stack location
itg3200_read_all_channels() takes __be16 *buf' as a parameter and fills the i2c_msg destination as (char *)&buf’. Since buf' is the parameter (a pointer), &buf’ is the address of the local pointer
slot on the stack of itg3200_read_all_channels(), not the address
of the caller’s scan buffer. The (char *) cast hides the type
mismatch.
i2c_transfer() therefore writes ITG3200_SCAN_ELEMENTS * sizeof(s16) = 8 bytes into the parameter’s stack slot, which is discarded when the function returns. The caller’s scan buffer in itg3200_trigger_handler() is never written to, so iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp() pushes uninitialised stack contents to userspace via /dev/iio:deviceX every scan – both a functional bug (no actual gyroscope or temperature data is delivered through the triggered buffer) and an information leak.
The non-buffered read_raw() path is unaffected: it goes through itg3200_read_reg_s16() which uses `&out’ on a local s16 value, where that is correct.
Drop the spurious `&’ so the i2c read writes into the caller’s buffer.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+16 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 13 | Released |
10 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | In Rollout |
47 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | In Rollout |
57 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
102 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
93 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Will Not Fix |
83 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 HWE Noble AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 | Will Not Fix | — |