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Debian: DSA-2254-2 Urgent: OProfile Command Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2011
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 tackles a security vulnerability in gnome-shell permitting unauthorized escalation of privileges. Update advised.
OProfile is a performance profiling tool which is configurable by opcontrol, its control utility
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Summary

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.

We recommend that you upgrade your oprofile packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: oprofile
CVE ID: CVE-2011-1760

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