CVE-2011-2905

First published: Wed Aug 10 2011(Updated: )

It was reported [1] that perf would look for configuration files in /etc/perfconfig, ~/.perfconfig, and ./config. If ./config is not a perf configuration file, perf could fail or possibly do unexpected things. If a privileged user was tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious ./config file, it could possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary commands. A patch is available [2]. [1] <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632923">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632923</a> [2] <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=131256355026183">http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=131256355026183</a>

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

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