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CVE-2009-2584

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Date: July 23, 2009

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

http://grsecurity.net/~spender/exploit_demo.c
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35753
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/362
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-852-1
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/348
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2584
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/linux-kernel-sgi-gru-driver-off-by-one-overwrite/
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2009-2584
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51887
http://secunia.com/advisories/37105
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-2584

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Numeric Errors

CWE-189

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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