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/.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - ibutils: insecure handling of files in the /tmp directory (CVE-2013-2561)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - 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/. (CVE-2013-2561)

Updated rdma, libibverbs, libmlx4, librdmacm, qperf, perftest, openmpi, compat-openmpi, infinipath-psm, mpitests, and rds-tools packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a collection of Infiniband and iWARP utilities, libraries and development packages for writing applications that use Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology.

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.
(CVE-2013-2561)

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 could use this flaw to provide incorrect address resolution information to librmdacm applications.
(CVE-2012-4516)

The CVE-2012-4516 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

This advisory updates the following packages to the latest upstream releases, providing a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous versions :

* libibverbs-1.1.7

* libmlx4-1.0.5

* librdmacm-1.0.17

* mstflint-3.0

* perftest-2.0

* qperf-0.4.9

* rdma-3.10

Several bugs have been fixed in the openmpi, mpitests, ibutils, and infinipath-psm packages.

The most notable changes in these updated packages from the RDMA stack are the following :

* Multiple bugs in the Message Passing Interface (MPI) test packages were resolved, allowing more of the mpitest applications to pass on the underlying MPI implementations.

* The libmlx4 package now includes dracut module files to ensure that any necessary custom configuration of mlx4 port types is included in the initramfs dracut builds.

* Multiple test programs in the perftest and qperf packages now work properly over RoCE interfaces, or when specifying the use of rdmacm queue pairs.

* The mstflint package has been updated to the latest upstream version, which is now capable of burning firmware on newly released Mellanox Connect-IB hardware.

* A compatibility problem between the openmpi and infinipath-psm packages has been resolved with new builds of these packages.

All RDMA users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.

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 could use this flaw to provide incorrect address resolution information to librmdacm applications.

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.
(CVE-2013-2561)

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 could use this flaw to provide incorrect address resolution information to librmdacm applications.
(CVE-2012-4516)

This advisory updates the following packages to the latest upstream releases, providing a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous versions :

Several bugs have been fixed in the openmpi, mpitests, ibutils, and infinipath-psm packages.

The most notable changes in these updated packages from the RDMA stack are the following :

  - Multiple bugs in the Message Passing Interface (MPI)     test packages were resolved, allowing more of the     mpitest applications to pass on the underlying MPI     implementations.

  - The libmlx4 package now includes dracut module files to     ensure that any necessary custom configuration of mlx4     port types is included in the initramfs dracut builds.

  - Multiple test programs in the perftest and qperf     packages now work properly over RoCE interfaces, or when     specifying the use of rdmacm queue pairs.

  - The mstflint package has been updated to the latest     upstream version, which is now capable of burning     firmware on newly released Mellanox Connect-IB hardware.

  - A compatibility problem between the openmpi and     infinipath-psm packages has been resolved with new     builds of these packages.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1661 advisory.

    ibutils     [1.5.7-8]
    - Add the -output patch to have programs use /var/cache/ibutils       instead of /tmp       Resolves: bz958569

    infinipath-psm
    * Thu Jan 24 2013 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
    - Put the udev rules file in the right place       Resolves: rhbz866732
    - include a patch from upstream to fix undefined references       Resolves: rhbz887730

    [3.0.1-115.1015_open.1]
    - New upstream releas       Resolves: rhbz818789

    [ 2.9-926.1005_open.2]
    - Add the udev rules file to close       Resolves: rhbz747406

    [2.9-926.1005_open.1]
    - New upstream version.
      Resolves: rhbz635915

    * Fri Nov 05 2010 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
    - Include the -execstack patch to get libinfinipath.so correctly       labeled as not executing the stack.
      Resolves: rhbz612936

    [1.13-2]
    - Use macros for lib and include directories, and include dist tag in       release field.
    - Corrected License field.
    - Corrected Requires lines for libuuid.
    - Add Exclusive-arch x86_64       Related: rhbz570274

    [1.13-1]
    - Initial build.

    libibverbs     [1.1.7-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release
    - Remove patches that are now part of upstream
    - Fix ibv_srq_pingpong with negative value to -s option
    - Resolves: bz879191

    libmlx4     [1.0.5-4.el6.1]
    - Fix dracut module for compatibility with RHEL6 version of dracut.
    - Resolves: bz789121

    [1.0.5-4]
    - Add dracut module
    - Fix URL

    [1.0.5-3]
    - Reduce the dependencies of the setup script even further, it no longer       needs grep

    [1.0.5-2]
    - The setup script needs to have execute permissions

    [1.0.5-1]
    - Update to latest upstream
    - Drop awk based setup for a bash based setup, making including       the setup code on an initramfs easier
    - Modernize spec file
    - Related: bz950915

    librdmacm     [1.0.17-1]
    - Official 1.0.17 release
    - The fix to bug 866221 got kicked back as incomplete last time, fix       it for real this time.
    - Intel adapters that use the qib driver don't like using inline data,       so use a memory region that is registered instead
    - Resolves: bz866221, bz828071

    mpitests     [3.2-9]
    - Backport fixes from RHEL-7       Resolves: rhbz1002332

    [3.2-7]
    - include BuildRequires: hwloc-devel from RHEL-7.0
    - Add win_free patch to close       Resolves: rhbz734023

    mstflint     [3.0-0.6.g6961daa.1]
    - Update to newer tarball that resolves licensing issues with the last       tarball
    - Related: bz818183

    [3.0-0.5.gff93670.1]
    - Update to latest upstream version, which includes ConnectIB support
    - Resolves: bz818183

    openmpi     [1.5.4-2.0.1]
    - Obsolete openmpi-psm-devel for 32bit

    [1.5.4-2]
    - Fix the build process by getting rid of the -build patch       and autogen to fix       Resolves: rhbz749115

    perftest     [2.0-2]
    - Fix rpmdiff detected error.  Upstream overrode our cflags so stack       protector got turned off.
    - Related: bz806183

    [2.0-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release
    - We had to drop ib_clock_test program as no equivalent exists       in the latest release
    - Resolves: bz806183, bz806185, bz830099

    [1.3.0-2]
    - Update to latest upstream release
    - No longer strip rocee related code out, we can compile with it now
    - Related: bz739138

    qperf     [0.4.9-1.0.1]
    - Rebuild for ULN upgrade

    [0.4.9-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release
    - Resolves: bz814909, bz840269

    rdma     [3.10-3.0.1]
    - Append mlx4_* module parameters when insmod the modules [orabug 17429249] (Joe Jin)
    - Delay load mlx4_* to prevent hung when start udev. [orabug 16897608] (Joe Jin)
    - Fix FMR load, persistent ib0 subinterfaces, remove kudzu dependency (Chien Yen)
    - Add SDP to rdma.conf and rdma.init (Chien Yen)
    - Support Mellanox OFED 1.5.5 (Chien Yen)

    [3.10-3]
    - Replace an errant usage of PARENTDEVICE with PHYSDEV in ifdown-ib
    - Related: bz990288

    [3.10-2]
    - Somehow during editing I accidentally deleted a single character from       the post scriptlet.  rpmdiff caught it, now I'm fixing it.
    - Resolves: bz990288

    [3.10-1]
    - Bump version to match final kernel submission
    - Add support for P_Key interfaces to ifup-ib and ifdown-ib

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1661 advisory.

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a collection of Infiniband and iWARP     utilities, libraries and development packages for writing applications that     use Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology.

    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. (CVE-2013-2561)

    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 could use this flaw to provide incorrect address     resolution information to librmdacm applications. (CVE-2012-4516)

    The CVE-2012-4516 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat     Product Security Team.

    This advisory updates the following packages to the latest upstream     releases, providing a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the     previous versions:

    * libibverbs-1.1.7
    * libmlx4-1.0.5
    * librdmacm-1.0.17
    * mstflint-3.0
    * perftest-2.0
    * qperf-0.4.9
    * rdma-3.10

    Several bugs have been fixed in the openmpi, mpitests, ibutils, and     infinipath-psm packages.

    The most notable changes in these updated packages from the RDMA stack are     the following:

    * Multiple bugs in the Message Passing Interface (MPI) test packages were     resolved, allowing more of the mpitest applications to pass on the     underlying MPI implementations.

    * The libmlx4 package now includes dracut module files to ensure that any     necessary custom configuration of mlx4 port types is included in the     initramfs dracut builds.

    * Multiple test programs in the perftest and qperf packages now work     properly over RoCE interfaces, or when specifying the use of rdmacm     queue pairs.

    * The mstflint package has been updated to the latest upstream version,     which is now capable of burning firmware on newly released Mellanox     Connect-IB hardware.

    * A compatibility problem between the openmpi and infinipath-psm packages     has been resolved with new builds of these packages.

    All RDMA users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     contain backported patches to correct these issues and add     these enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Various tmp races in ibdiagnet of ibutils have been fixed that could have been used by local attackers on machines where infiband was debugged to gain privileges.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199000	RHEL 5 : ibutils (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
80640	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : ibutils (cve_2013_2561_link_following)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	medium
79172	CentOS 6 : ibutils / infinipath-psm / libibverbs / libmlx4 / librdmacm / mpitests / mstflint / etc (CESA-2013:1661)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
71396	Amazon Linux AMI : openmpi (ALAS-2013-256)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
71294	Scientific Linux Security Update : RDMA stack on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131121)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
71110	Oracle Linux 6 : rdma / stack (ELSA-2013-1661)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
71015	RHEL 6 : RDMA stack (RHSA-2013:1661)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
68874	SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : ibutils (SAT Patch Numbers 8029 / 8030)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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