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CVE-2008-4190

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 1%

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.

Published 2008-09-24 · CVE record · OSV

Products: openswan, xelerance openswan

Distro releases

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian 4.0openswan1:2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1
Debian 5.0openswan1:2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5openswan0:2.6.14-1.el5_3.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5openswan-debuginfo0:2.6.14-1.el5_3.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5openswan-doc0:2.6.14-1.el5_3.2