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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2254-1 (oprofile)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to oprofile announced via advisory DSA 2254-1.
Insight
Insight
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. 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. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.6-1.2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.6-1.2.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your oprofile packages.