CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2584
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-07-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Off-by-one error in the options_write function in drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 and earlier on ia64 and x86 platforms might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted count argument, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.30.2)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/exploit_demo.c Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/348 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/362 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37105 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35753 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/linux-kernel-sgi-gru-driver-off-by-one-overwrite/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51887 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/exploit_demo.c Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/348 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/362 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37105 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35753 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/linux-kernel-sgi-gru-driver-off-by-one-overwrite/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51887 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry