Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2473

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-06-09 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 23:00:34
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The do_dump_data function in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted --session-dir argument in conjunction with a symlink attack on the opd_pipe file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760.