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).

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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Directory traversal vulnerability in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users     to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the --save argument, related to the --session-dir     argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760. (CVE-2011-2472)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-09 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      FMOD Studio       PEAR Mail       LVM2       GnuCash       xine-lib       Last.fm Scrobbler       WebKitGTK+       shadow tool suite       PEAR       unixODBC       Resource Agents       mrouted       rsync       XML Security Library       xrdb       Vino       OProfile       syslog-ng       sFlow Toolkit       GNOME Display Manager       libsoup       CA Certificates       Gitolite       QtCreator       Racer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
55567	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : oprofile vulnerabilities (USN-1166-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/12/2011	9/19/2019	high
217509	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-2472	Nessus	Misc.	3/3/2025	3/3/2025	high
79962	GLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	12/15/2014	2/28/2025	critical

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