CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0576

7.2 HIGH Published 2006-02-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-02-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• maynard johnson oprofile (<= 0.9.1) • maynard johnson oprofile 0.1 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.2 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.3 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.4 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.5 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.5.1 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.5.2 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.5.3 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.5.4 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.6 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.6.1 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.7 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.7.1 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.8 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.8.1 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.8.2 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.9

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