CVE-2014-3977 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2014-3977

libodm.a in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.x,...

Vulnerability Description

libodm.a in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.x, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2179.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

vios, aix
Vulnerable Versions:
2.2.0.10, 2.2.0.11, 2.2.0.12, 2.2.0.13, 2.2.1.0, 2.2.1.1, 2.2.1.3, 2.2.1.4, 2.2.1.8, 2.2.1.9, 2.2.2.0, 2.2.2.4, 2.2.2.5, 2.2.3.0, 2.2.3.2, 2.2.3.3, 6.1, 7.1

Timeline

Official Publish: June 8th, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.