Bug 712760 – CVE-2011-2471 oprofile: Local privilege escalation via shell metacharacters

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Bug 712760 - (CVE-2011-2471) CVE-2011-2471 oprofile: Local privilege escalation via shell metacharacters

Summary:	CVE-2011-2471 oprofile: Local privilege escalation via shell metacharacters

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2011-2471

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	701504 701505 701506 701507 701508
Blocks:	711681
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Reported:	2011-06-12 23:44 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2011-07-29 06:41 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2011-07-29 06:41:40 EDT
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-06-12 23:44:06 EDT

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 06:37:34 EDT

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

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