CVE-2008-4190

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Openswan: 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9 (+7)
Xelerance Openswan: 2.3.1, 2.4.0, 2.4.2, 2.4.4, 2.6.03, 2.6.04 (+12)

References

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

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