CVE-2008-4190 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496374 http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openswan http://secunia.com/advisories/34182 http://secunia.com/advisories/34472 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501624/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501640/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31243 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460425 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45250 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10078 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9135