CVE-2011-1760

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-04-26
Bugzilla:
700883: CVE-2011-1760 oprofile: Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2011-1760 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat currently does not plan to address this issue. For details refer to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883#c18

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 oprofile Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 oprofile Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 oprofile Not affected

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