CVE-2014-4038

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to (1) rtas_errd/diag_support.c and /tmp/get_dt_files, (2) scripts/ppc64_diag_mkrsrc and /tmp/diagSEsnap/snapH.tar.gz, or (3) lpd/test/lpd_ela_test.sh and /var/tmp/ras.

Affected products

Ppc64-Diag Project Ppc64-Diag: 2.6.1
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-07/msg00018.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0383.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1320.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60616
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68049
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882667
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109371
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-07/msg00018.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0383.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1320.html

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