CVE-2009-2584

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51887

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35753

http://secunia.com/advisories/37105

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/362

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3