rhea-2006_0355
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2006-08-09 00:00
Modified
2024-11-22 00:14
Summary
Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: oprofile enhancement update

Notes

Topic
An oprofile enhancement update that provides support for POWER5+ and uses the current event names for POWER4 and POWER5 is now available.
Details
The oprofile package contains a profiling system for systems running the Linux kernel. Profiling runs transparently in the background while profile data is collected. OProfile did not recognize the ppc64 POWER5+ processor. The events for the POWER4 and POWER5 did not match the currently used event names. Users of OProfile are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add these enhancements.
Terms of Use
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          "text": "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.",
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