Fedora 14 : oprofile-0.9.6-21.fc14 (2011-8087)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55676

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

When opcontrol was run by a normal user with sudo access it was possible for the user to craft options to opcontrol that would allow commands to be run with root privileges.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701508

http://www.nessus.org/u?22f2fafd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55676

File Name: fedora_2011-8087.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:oprofile, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1760

FEDORA: 2011-8087