oprofile (0.9.6-1.1+squeeze2) 0001-Sanitize-Event-Names.patch

From d52d142365cedb6c11e0d57835a6530cb9687474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:44:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Sanitize Event Names

The event names need to be sanitized to only allow alphanumeric characters to
address CVE-2011-1760.
---
 utils/opcontrol |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/opcontrol b/utils/opcontrol
index 3a8a814..f2558e6 100644
--- a/utils/opcontrol
+++ b/utils/opcontrol
@@ -390,7 +390,17 @@ get_event()
 
 set_event()
 {
-	eval "CHOSEN_EVENTS_$1=$2"
+	clean1="`echo "${1}" | tr -cd '[:alnum:]_'`"
+	clean2="`echo "${2}" | tr -cd '[:alnum:]_:'`"
+	if [ "x$1" != "x$clean1" ]; then
+		echo "Invalid event number \"$1\"."
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	if [ "x$2" != "x$clean2" ]; then
+		echo "Invalid event \"$2\"."
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	eval "CHOSEN_EVENTS_$clean1=$clean2"
 }
 
 
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1.7.1