VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-2846

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability8.16%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-08-18
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Description

The eisa_eeprom_read function in the parisc isa-eeprom component (drivers/parisc/eisa_eeprom.c) in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc6 allows local users to access restricted memory via a negative ppos argument, which bypasses a check that assumes that ppos is positive and causes an out-of-bounds read in the readb function.

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