# CVE-2021-47613: i2c: virtio: fix completion handling


- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 19 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47613, GHSA-xpr2-p5g8-h7fq, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47613

## What is CVE-2021-47613?

CVE-2021-47613 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. 

### Official description

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

i2c: virtio: fix completion handling

The driver currently assumes that the notify callback is only received
when the device is done with all the queued buffers.

However, this is not true, since the notify callback could be called
without any of the queued buffers being completed (for example, with
virtio-pci and shared interrupts) or with only some of the buffers being
completed (since the driver makes them available to the device in
multiple separate virtqueue_add_sgs() calls).

This can lead to incorrect data on the I2C bus or memory corruption in
the guest if the device operates on buffers which are have been freed by
the driver.  (The WARN_ON in the driver is also triggered.)

 BUG kmalloc-128 (Tainted: G        W        ): Poison overwritten
 First byte 0x0 instead of 0x6b
 Allocated in i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x9d/0x1de age=243 cpu=0 pid=28
 	memdup_user+0x2e/0xbd
 	i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x9d/0x1de
 	i2cdev_ioctl+0x247/0x2ed
 	vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x30
 	sys_ioctl+0xb18/0xb41
 Freed in i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x1bb/0x1de age=68 cpu=0 pid=28
 	kfree+0x1bd/0x1cc
 	i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr+0x1bb/0x1de
 	i2cdev_ioctl+0x247/0x2ed
 	vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x30
 	sys_ioctl+0xb18/0xb41

Fix this by calling virtio_get_buf() from the notify handler like other
virtio drivers and by actually waiting for all the buffers to be
completed.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-47613?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-47613?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2021-47613 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47613 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-47613 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-47613 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47613 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47613/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47613/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47613
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47613
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-47613

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