CVE-2011-2471: Maynard Johnson Oprofile

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the (1) --vmlinux, (2) --session-dir, or (3) --xen argument, related to the daemonrc file and the do_save_setup and do_load_setup functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760.

Affected products

• Maynard Johnson Oprofile: up to and including 0.9.6; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2011-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.