CVE-2009-2846
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 18, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 18, 2009
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20090810 CVE request: kernel: parisc: isa-eeprom missing lower bound checkmailing-list
- USN-852-1vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2010:198vendor-advisory
- kernel-eisaeepromread-sec-bypass(52906)vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20090818 Re: CVE request: kernel: parisc: isa-eeprom missing lower bound checkmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=6b4dbcd86a9d464057fcc7abe4d0574093071fcc
- 37105third-party-advisory
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