CVE-2011-2471

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.

Bugs

• <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883&gt;
• <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212&gt;