CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2473
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-06-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
The do_dump_data function in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted --session-dir argument in conjunction with a symlink attack on the opd_pipe file, 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 · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212 Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/1 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254 www.debian.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67978 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212 Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/1 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254 www.debian.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67978 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com