Upstream information

CVE-2011-2471 at MITRE

Description

utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the (1) --vmlinux, (2) --session-dir, or (3) --xen argument, related to the daemonrc file and the do_save_setup and do_load_setup functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 691136 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP4 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP5 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 oprofile Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 oprofile Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 oprofile Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 oprofile Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS oprofile Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 oprofile Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 oprofile Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 oprofile Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 oprofile Analysis


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CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:11:52 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 15:30:39 2025