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CVE-2011-2471 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (oprofile), 5 status rows across 5 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, upstream): released 4, ignored 1.
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.