CVE-2011-2472: Maynard Johnson Oprofile

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the --save argument, related to the --session-dir argument, 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.