CVE-2009-2584

CVE-2009-2584 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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