CVE-2011-2473: Maynard Johnson Oprofile

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The do_dump_data function in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted --session-dir argument in conjunction with a symlink attack on the opd_pipe file, 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.