oss-security - CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:16:38 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Stephane Chauveau <stephane.chauveau@...s-entreprise.com>,
        Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...ibm.com>,
        William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
        Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Subject: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted
 opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,

   It was found that oprofile profiling system did not properly sanitize
the content of event argument, provided to oprofile profiling control
utility (opcontrol). If a local unprivileged user was authorized by
sudoers file to run the opcontrol utility, they could use the flaw
to escalate their privileges (execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of the privileged system user, root). Different vulnerability than
CVE-2006-0576.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883

Could you allocate a CVE id for this?

Thank you & Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

P.S.: Oprofile is not encouraged to be run under sudo, but still
       should not allow escalation of privileges.

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