National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0576
Original release date:02/08/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/20/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207347
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
This issue was fixed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in the following errata:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0355.html
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2
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External Source: BID
Name: 16536
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060207 Arbitrary code execution via OProfile
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/oprofile/