CVE-2006-0576

CVE-2006-0576 · HIGH Severity

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH that references malicious (1) which or (2) dirname programs. NOTE: while opcontrol normally is not run setuid, a common configuration suggests accessing opcontrol using sudo. In such a context, this is a vulnerability.

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