CVE-2014-4038

MEDIUM 4.4CVE-2014-4038 · Published 17/06/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-4038 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting ppc64-diag (ppc64-diag project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 29.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ppc64-diag ppc64-diag_project	`= 2.6.1`	No fix yet

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.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-07/msg00018.html · Third Party Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1 · Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0383.html · Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1320.html · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/60616
securityfocus.com/bid/68049
bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking

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