CVEs-PoC/2011/CVE-2011-2472.md

### [CVE-2011-2472](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2472)
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### Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in utils/opcontrol in OProfile 0.9.6 and earlier might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the --save argument, related to the --session-dir argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1760.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.