Vulnerability · Published Mar 25, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2021-47153i2c: i801: Don't generate an interrupt on bus reset

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 14% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 85.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: i801: Don't generate an interrupt on bus reset Now that the i2c-i801 driver supports interrupts, setting the KILL bit in a attempt to recover from a timed out transaction triggers an interrupt. Unfortunately, the interrupt handler (i801_isr) is not prepared for this situation and will try to process the interrupt as if it was signaling the end of a successful transaction. In the case of a block transaction, this can result in an out-of-range memory access. This condition was reproduced several times by syzbot: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ed71512d469895b5b34e https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8c8dedc0ba9e03f6c79e https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c8ff0b6d6c73d81b610e https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=33f6c360821c399d69eb https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=be15dc0b1933f04b043a https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b4d3fd1dfd53e90afd79 So disable interrupts while trying to reset the bus. Interrupts will be enabled again for the following transaction.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8bpftool4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-abi-stablelists4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-core4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-cross-headers4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-core4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-debug-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-doc4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-headers4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-core4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-core4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-kvm4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-kvm4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-rt-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10ALSA-2024:3627
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-tools-libs-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-core4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-devel4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8perf4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
AlmaLinux:8python3-perf4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10ALSA-2024:3618
Debian:12linux5.14.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47153
Debian:13linux5.14.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47153
Debian:14linux5.14.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47153
Rocky Linux:8kernel0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10RLSA-2024:3618
Rocky Linux:8kernel-rt0:4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10RLSA-2024:3627
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47153

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before f9469082126cebb7337db3992d143f5e4edfe629636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before 09c9e79f4c10cfb6b9e0e1b4dd355232e4b5a3b3636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before dfa8929e117b0228a7765f5c3f5988a4a028f3c6636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before c70e1ba2e7e65255a0ce004f531dd90dada97a8c636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before 04cc05e3716ae31b17ecdab7bc55c8170def1b8b636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before b523feb7e8e44652f92f3babb953a976e7ccbbef636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before 1f583d3813f204449037cd2acbfc09168171362a636752bcb5177a301d0266270661581de8624828 – before e4d8716c3dcec47f1557024add24e1f3c09eb24b
Linux Linux 3.6

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