ubuntu · CVE-2011-1760

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-1760 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (oprofile), 5 status rows across 5 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, upstream): released 4, ignored 1.

Description:

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.