CVE-2021-47561

/// Technical description

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

i2c: virtio: disable timeout handling

If a timeout is hit, it can result is incorrect data on the I2C bus

and/or memory corruptions in the guest since the device can still be

operating on the buffers it was given while the guest has freed them.

Here is, for example, the start of a slub_debug splat which was

triggered on the next transfer after one transfer was forced to timeout

by setting a breakpoint in the backend (rust-vmm/vhost-device):

BUG kmalloc-1k (Not tainted): Poison overwritten

First byte 0x1 instead of 0x6b

Allocated in virtio_i2c_xfer+0x65/0x35c age=350 cpu=0 pid=29

__kmalloc+0xc2/0x1c9

virtio_i2c_xfer+0x65/0x35c

__i2c_transfer+0x429/0x57d

i2c_transfer+0x115/0x134

i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x16a/0x1de

i2cdev_ioctl+0x247/0x2ed

vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x30

sys_ioctl+0xb18/0xb41

Freed in virtio_i2c_xfer+0x32e/0x35c age=244 cpu=0 pid=29

kfree+0x1bd/0x1cc

virtio_i2c_xfer+0x32e/0x35c

__i2c_transfer+

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

/// References