Bug 712760 (CVE-2011-2471)

Summary: CVE-2011-2471 oprofile: Local privilege escalation via shell metacharacters
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: wcohen
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Last Closed: 2011-07-29 10:41:40 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 701504, 701505, 701506, 701507, 701508    
Bug Blocks: 711681    

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-06-13 03:44:06 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-2471 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2011-2471
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2471
Assigned: 20110609
Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/1
Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6
Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7
Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1
Reference: CONFIRM:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883
Reference: DEBIAN:DSA-2254
Reference: URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254

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.
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-07-29 10:37:34 UTC 
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