CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-0576
7.2 HIGH
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- 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
References
- http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/oprofile/ www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424325/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16536 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10890 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/oprofile/ www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424325/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16536 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10890 oval.cisecurity.org