CVE-2009-2846: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 8.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.31; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; …

Published 2009-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.