Vulnerability in Maynard Johnson Oprofile

CVE-2006-0576

Untrusted search path vulnerability in opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a modified PATH that references malicious (1) which or (2) dirname programs. NOTE: while opcontrol normally is not run setuid, a common configuration suggests accessing opcontrol using sudo. In such a context, this is a vulnerability.

EPSS: 0.004 (32.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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