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oprofile: privilege escalation/file overwrite

Package(s):oprofile CVE #(s):CVE-2011-2471 CVE-2011-2472
Created:July 11, 2011 Updated:July 13, 2011
Description: From the CVE entries:

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. (CVE-2011-2471)

Directory traversal vulnerability in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the --save argument, related to the --session-dir argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760. (CVE-2011-2472)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1166-1 2011-07-11

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