CVE-2011-1760 Information

Description

utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to conduct eval injection attacks and gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the -e argument.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/29/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/02/17 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1 http://secunia.com/advisories/44790 http://secunia.com/advisories/45205 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47652 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1166-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883