CVE-2008-4190
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 24, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 23, 2008
Description
The IPSEC livetest tool in Openswan 2.4.12 and earlier, and 2.6.x through 2.6.16, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the (1) ipseclive.conn and (2) ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files. NOTE: in many distributions and the upstream version, this tool has been disabled.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 34472third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460425
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfiremailing-list
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- 20090309 Re: [ GLSA 200903-18 ] Openswan: Insecure temporary file creationmailing-list
- 34182third-party-advisory
- 20090310 Re: [ GLSA 200903-18 ] Openswan: Insecure temporary file creationmailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10078vdb-entrysignature
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openswan
- 31243vdb-entry
- 9135exploit
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496374
- RHSA-2009:0402vendor-advisory
- openswan-livetest-symlink(45250)vdb-entry
- DSA-1760vendor-advisory
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