CVE-2017-18551: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.14.15 (fixed in 4.14.15)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only

Published 2019-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.