CVE-2006-0576: Maynard Johnson Oprofile

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Maynard Johnson Oprofile: up to and including 0.9.1; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2006-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.