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CVE-2009-2584

2009-07-2300:00:00
ubuntu.com
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CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

EPSS

0

Percentile

9.8%

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.

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur may only be vulnerable on particular SGI hardware PoC: http://grsecurity.net/~spender/exploit_demo.c
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu8.10noarchlinux< 2.6.27-15.43UNKNOWN
ubuntu9.04noarchlinux< 2.6.28-16.55UNKNOWN

CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

EPSS

0

Percentile

9.8%