USN-1166-1: OProfile vulnerabilities
11 July 2011
OProfile could be made to run programs as an administrator.
Releases
Packages
- oprofile - System-wide profiler for Linux systems
Details
Stephane Chauveau discovered that OProfile did not properly perform input
validation when processing arguments to opcontrol. A local user who is
allowed to run opcontrol with privileges could exploit this to run
arbitrary commands as the privileged user. (CVE-2011-1760, CVE-2011-2471)
Stephane Chauveau discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in
OProfile when processing the --save argument to opcontrol. A local user
could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of
the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-2472)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.