Privilege escalation vulnerability in SystemTap runtime tool (staprun) allows local users to gain elevated privileges

CVE-2011-2502 · MEDIUM Severity

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

runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c in the systemtap runtime tool (staprun) in SystemTap before 1.6 does not properly validate modules when a module path is specified by a user for user-space probing, which allows local users in the stapusr group to gain privileges via a crafted module in the search path in the -u argument.

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