cve/2011/CVE-2011-2471.md

CVE-2011-2471

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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.