CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2471

7.2 HIGH Published 2011-06-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-06-09
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
Weaknesses
CWE-264

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.

Affected configurations

• maynard johnson oprofile (<= 0.9.6) • 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 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.9.1 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.9.2 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.9.3 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.9.4 • maynard johnson oprofile 0.9.5

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References