CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.2. It affects Linux.
CVE
CVE-2011-2471
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.48%
Linux
Original NVD Description
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.