CVE-2006-0576

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-02-07
Bugzilla:
1618011: CVE-2006-0576 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH that references malicious (1) which or (2) dirname programs. NOTE: while opcontrol normally is not run setuid, a common configuration suggests accessing opcontrol using sudo. In such a context, this is a vulnerability.

Find out more about CVE-2006-0576 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207347

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

This issue was fixed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in the following errata:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0355.html

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHEA-2006:0355 2006-08-09

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