CVE-2011-2471 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/1 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/45205 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1166-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67980