National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1760

Overview

utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to conduct eval injection attacks and gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the -e argument.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110510 Re: Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110503 Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110502 Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/02/17

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110430 Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110430 Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110429 CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/29/3

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1166-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1166-1

External Source: BID

Name: 47652

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47652

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2254

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45205

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45205

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44790

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44790

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110511 Re: Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110510 Re: Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212