{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-06-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ppc64-diag: multiple temporary file races",
    "id" : "1109371",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109371"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "(CWE-367|CWE-377)",
  "details" : [ "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.", "Multiple insecure temporary file use flaws were found in the way the ppc64-diag utility created certain temporary files. A local attacker could possibly use either of these flaws to perform a symbolic link attack and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running ppc64-diag, or obtain sensitive information from the temporary files." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2015-07-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:1320",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "ppc64-diag-0:2.6.7-4.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-03-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:0383",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "ppc64-diag-0:2.6.7-6.el7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4038\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4038" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-4038",
  "csaw" : false
}