OProfile 0.9.6 – ‘opcontrol’ Utility ‘set_event()’ Local Privilege Escalation
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47652/info OProfile is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to run arbitrary commands with superuser privileges. The following example command is available: sudo opcontrol -e "abcd;/usr/bin/id" |