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
Link Resource
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
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-07-23T20:00:00

Updated: 2017-08-16T14:57:01

Reserved: 2009-07-23T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2009-2584

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2009-07-23T20:30:00.313

Modified: 2018-11-16T15:35:10.850


Link: CVE-2009-2584

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