Privilege Escalation via Shell Metacharacters in OProfile 0.9.6 and Earlier

Privilege Escalation via Shell Metacharacters in OProfile 0.9.6 and Earlier

CVE-2011-2471 · HIGH Severity

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

utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the (1) --vmlinux, (2) --session-dir, or (3) --xen argument, related to the daemonrc file and the do_save_setup and do_load_setup functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760.

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