Debian DSA-2254-1 : oprofile - command injection

high Nessus Plugin ID 55042

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

OProfile is a performance profiling tool which is configurable by opcontrol, its control utility. Stephane Chauveau reported several ways to inject arbitrary commands in the arguments of this utility. If a local unprivileged user is authorized by sudoers file to run opcontrol as root, this user could use the flaw to escalate his privileges.

Solution

Upgrade the oprofile packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.3-2+lenny1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.6-1.1+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55042

File Name: debian_DSA-2254.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/10/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:oprofile, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1760

BID: 47652

DSA: 2254

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