CVE-2009-2584
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (44th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-2579)
- Published
- July 23, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-2579 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
References
- 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)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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