CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4190
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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.
Affected configurations
• openswan openswan 1.0.4
• openswan openswan 1.0.5
• openswan openswan 1.0.6
• openswan openswan 1.0.7
• openswan openswan 1.0.8
• openswan openswan 1.0.9
• openswan openswan 2.1.1
• openswan openswan 2.1.2
• openswan openswan 2.1.4
• openswan openswan 2.1.5
• openswan openswan 2.1.6
• openswan openswan 2.2
• openswan openswan 2.3
• xelerance openswan 2.3.1
• xelerance openswan 2.4.0
• xelerance openswan 2.4.2
• xelerance openswan 2.4.4
• xelerance openswan 2.6.03
• xelerance openswan 2.6.04
• xelerance openswan 2.6.05
• xelerance openswan 2.6.06
• xelerance openswan 2.6.07
• xelerance openswan 2.6.08
• xelerance openswan 2.6.09
• xelerance openswan 2.6.10
• xelerance openswan 2.6.11
• xelerance openswan 2.6.12
• xelerance openswan 2.6.13
• xelerance openswan 2.6.14
• xelerance openswan 2.6.15
• xelerance openswan 2.6.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496374 Patch
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openswan dev.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34182 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34472 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501624/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501640/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31243 Patch
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460425 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45250 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10078 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9135 www.exploit-db.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496374 Patch
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openswan dev.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34182 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34472 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501624/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501640/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31243 Patch
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460425 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45250 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10078 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9135 www.exploit-db.com