Candidate: CVE-2009-2846 PublicDate: 2009-08-18 21:00:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2846 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-852-1 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. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Bugs: Priority: low Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_linux-source-2.6.15: upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: needs-triage dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.15-55.80) hardy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE intrepid_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE jaunty_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE Patches_linux: upstream_linux: needs-triage dapper_linux: DNE hardy_linux: released (2.6.24-25.63) intrepid_linux: released (2.6.27-15.43) jaunty_linux: released (2.6.28-16.55) devel_linux: not-affected