CVE-2011-2147 Information

Description

Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid related to starter.c in the IPsec starter and (2) /var/lock/subsys/ipsec which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to a file or possibly bypass disk quotas by writing arbitrary data to a file as demonstrated by files with 0666 permissions a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1784.

Reference

http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00012.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00013.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00018.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67822