CVE-2026-98204 PUBLISHED

Input: rmi_smbus - fix out-of-bounds read in rmi_smb_write_block()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Input: rmi_smbus - fix out-of-bounds read in rmi_smb_write_block()

When chunking writes into SMBus blocks in rmi_smb_write_block(), the loop calculates block_len using the original total length (len) instead of the remaining length (cur_len).

If len is greater than 32 bytes (SMB_MAX_COUNT), block_len remains 32 for every iteration, even on the final partial chunk where fewer than 32 bytes remain. This causes smb_block_write() to read 32 bytes from the advanced data buffer pointer, reading past the end of the input buffer.

Fix this by calculating block_len using cur_len and advancing the buffer and address pointers by block_len.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to d01337c0892d1509500c727edf81380777c2dd0f (excl.)
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to 7c800af1c6030a5f27d46ce7d6d5d75f9c1efaf8 (excl.)
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to 29fbcf5834f0a7f74bfd017c07da2411b35a4e2a (excl.)
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to 50dd585bee7669eb165e5defcc35d17f3822cfbb (excl.)
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to e022538e13dd1c82af5ec25ac28f12ca0ab26160 (excl.)
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to dc05ec97b8299e48e31367a9bc412c7e9c0e2b42 (excl.)
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to 9f0ce5e162eed8b68345abe839c59768bc60f99a (excl.)
  • affected from 82264d0cf7aef2247563c031ff2ab96579d5d0cc to 51cfe54f815ae175c7d1126b983d4d7c89715004 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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