Path Traversal in Maynard Johnson Oprofile

CVE-2011-2472

Directory traversal vulnerability in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the --save argument, related to the --session-dir argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.005 (42.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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