Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70034
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 14 FEDORA-2011-8087 (oprofile)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to oprofile announced via advisory FEDORA-2011-8087. Update Information: When opcontrol was run by a normal user with sudo access it was possible for the user to craft options to opcontrol that would allow commands to be run with root privileges. References: [ 1 ] Bug #701508 - CVE-2011-1760 oprofile: Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701508 Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update oprofile' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2011-8087 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.2
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1760 44790 http://secunia.com/advisories/44790 45205 http://secunia.com/advisories/45205 47652 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47652 DSA-2254 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2254 USN-1166-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1166-1 [oss-security] 20110429 CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/29/3 [oss-security] 20110430 Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/01/2 [oss-security] 20110502 Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/02/17 [oss-security] 20110503 Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/03/2 [oss-security] 20110510 Re: Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/10/7 [oss-security] 20110511 Re: Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/11/1 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883
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