utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to conduct eval injection attacks and gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the -e argument.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to conduct eval injection attacks     and gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the -e argument. (CVE-2011-1760)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to the version of the oprofile packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might     allow local users to conduct eval injection attacks and     gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the -e     argument.(CVE-2011-1760)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-09 (Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011)

    Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the packages listed below.
      Please review the CVE identifiers in the Reference section for details.
      FMOD Studio       PEAR Mail       LVM2       GnuCash       xine-lib       Last.fm Scrobbler       WebKitGTK+       shadow tool suite       PEAR       unixODBC       Resource Agents       mrouted       rsync       XML Security Library       xrdb       Vino       OProfile       syslog-ng       sFlow Toolkit       GNOME Display Manager       libsoup       CA Certificates       Gitolite       QtCreator       Racer   Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges,       execute arbitrary code, cause Denial of Service, obtain sensitive       information, or otherwise bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There are no known workarounds at this time.

When opcontrol was run by a normal user with sudo access it was possible for the user to craft options to opcontrol that would allow commands to be run with root privileges.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Stephane Chauveau discovered that OProfile did not properly perform input validation when processing arguments to opcontrol. A local user who is allowed to run opcontrol with privileges could exploit this to run arbitrary commands as the privileged user. (CVE-2011-1760, CVE-2011-2471)

Stephane Chauveau discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in OProfile when processing the --save argument to opcontrol. A local user could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-2472).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217332	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-1760	Nessus	Misc.	high
132179	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : oprofile (EulerOS-SA-2019-2644)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131669	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : oprofile (EulerOS-SA-2019-2516)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
79962	GLSA-201412-09 : Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
55676	Fedora 14 : oprofile-0.9.6-21.fc14 (2011-8087)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
55675	Fedora 15 : oprofile-0.9.6-21.fc15 (2011-8076)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
55567	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : oprofile vulnerabilities (USN-1166-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
55042	Debian DSA-2254-1 : oprofile - command injection	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2011-1760

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