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Posted on 28 July 2011
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TITLE:
Fedora update for oprofile
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45423
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2011-07-28
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for oprofile. This fixes a weakness,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain
actions with escalated privileges.
The weakness is caused due an error in the opcontrol script and can
be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands.
Successful exploitation requires sudo privileges.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update oprofile").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2011-8087:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063042.html
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