CVE-2011-2471

Published: 9 June 2011

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.

Status

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1166-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2471
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212