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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 2254-2] oprofile security update

    From Luciano Bello@1:229/2 to All on Sat Jul 16 11:50:01 2011
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2254-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
    July 11, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : oprofile
    Vulnerability : command injection
    Problem type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    Debian bug : 624212
    CVE ID : CVE-2011-1760

    Jamie Strandboge noticed that the patch propoused to fix CVE-2011-1760 in OProfile has been incomplete.

    For reference, the description of the original DSA, is:

    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+lenny2.

    For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.9.6-1.1+squeeze2.

    For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.9.6-1.4.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.9.6-1.4.


    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/

    Mailing list: [email protected]
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