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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : oprofile vulnerabilities (USN-1166-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55567

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Stephane Chauveau discovered that OProfile did not properly perform input validation when processing arguments to opcontrol. A local user who is allowed to run opcontrol with privileges could exploit this to run arbitrary commands as the privileged user. (CVE-2011-1760, CVE-2011-2471)

Stephane Chauveau discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in OProfile when processing the --save argument to opcontrol. A local user could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-2472).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected oprofile package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1166-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55567

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1166-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:oprofile, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1760, CVE-2011-2471, CVE-2011-2472

BID: 47652, 48241

USN: 1166-1