CVE-2014-4038 describes a symlink attack vulnerability in ppc64-diag 2.6.1, affecting various Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Linux products. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files due to insecure handling of temporary files in several components. With a CVSS score of 4.4, it is considered of medium severity, requiring local access and moderate attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ppc64-diag_project:ppc64-diag:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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