CVE-2009-2584

Name	CVE-2009-2584
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
linux-2.6	source	etch	(not affected)
linux-2.6	source	lenny	(not affected)
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	2.6.31-2	high
linux-2.6.24	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

[etch] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
[lenny] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
- linux-2.6.24 <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
exploit code exists