CVE-2011-2471 (GCVE-0-2011-2471)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-06-09 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:00
VLAI?
Summary
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.
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