CVE-2006-0576 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/oprofile/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424325/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16536 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10890