Maynard Johnson OProfile up to 0.9.1 privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Maynard Johnson OProfile up to 0.9.1. It has been classified as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-0576. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Maynard Johnson OProfile up to 0.9.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 02/07/2006 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-0576 since 02/07/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 16536†). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Maynard Johnson

Name

• OProfile

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.5.1
• 0.5.2
• 0.5.3
• 0.5.4
• 0.6
• 0.6.1
• 0.7
• 0.7.1
• 0.8
• 0.8.1
• 0.8.2
• 0.9
• 0.9.1

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