CVE-2022-2873: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel Intel’s iSMT SMBus host controller driver in the way a user triggers the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA (with the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 36 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.19 (fixed in 5.19); version 5.19 only
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2022-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.