CVE-2011-2472
N/A
Published: June 9, 2011 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOprofile
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/1Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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