CVE-2009-2584: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.30.2

Published 2009-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.