CVE-2011-2502: Systemtap

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c in the systemtap runtime tool (staprun) in SystemTap before 1.6 does not properly validate modules when a module path is specified by a user for user-space probing, which allows local users in the stapusr group to gain privileges via a crafted module in the search path in the -u argument.

Affected products

• Systemtap Systemtap: up to and including 1.5; version 0.2.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.5.3 only; …

Published 2012-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.