6.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2013-2561

Published: 23/11/2013 Updated: 22/04/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.3 | Impact Score: 9.2 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 561
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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/.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: RDMA stack security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated rdma, libibverbs, libmlx4, librdmacm, qperf, perftest, openmpi,compat-openmpi, infinipath-psm, mpitests, and rds-tools packages that fixtwo security issues, several bugs, and add v ...
Debian Bug report logs - #704063 ibutils: CVE-2013-2561 Package: ibutils; Maintainer for ibutils is Debian HPC Team <debian-hpc@listsdebianorg>; Source for ibutils is src:ibutils (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:36:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: securit ...
A flaw was found in the way ibutils handled temporary files A local attacker could use this flaw to cause arbitrary files to be overwritten as the root user via a symbolic link attack It was discovered that librdmacm used a static port to connect to the ib_acm service A local attacker able to run a specially crafted ib_acm service on that port c ...