SUSE CVE-2026-43005

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: tps53679 Fix array access with zero-length block read i2csmbusreadblockdata can return 0, indicating a zero-length read. When this happens, tps53679identifychip accesses bufret - 1 which is buf-1, reading one byte before t...

CVE-2026-43005

CVE-2026-43005 affects the Linux kernel hwmon driver for tps53679. The bug arises when i2c_smbus_read_block_data() returns 0 (zero-length read); tps53679_identify_chip() then accesses buf[ret-1] (buf[-1]), causing an out-of-bounds read. The fix changes the check from ret < 0 to ret