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CVE-2006-0576

CVE information

Published

18 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH that references malicious (1) which or (2) dirname programs. NOTE: while opcontrol normally is not run setuid, a common configuration suggests accessing opcontrol using sudo. In such a context, this is a vulnerability..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.2/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:maynard_johnson:oprofile:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -