CVE-2013-2561

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) ibdiagnet.db, (2) ibdiagnet.fdbs, (3) ibdiagnet_ibis.log, (4) ibdiagnet.log, (5) ibdiagnet.lst, (6) ibdiagnet.mcfdbs, (7) ibdiagnet.pkey, (8) ibdiagnet.psl, (9) ibdiagnet.slvl, or (10) ibdiagnet.sm in /tmp/.

Affected products

Openfabrics Ibutils: 1.5.7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1661.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/87
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/19/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/26/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/26/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/26/4
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58335
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927430
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1661.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/87
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/19/8

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