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CVE-2008-4190

N/A

Published: September 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsOpenswanOpenswan

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 1%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Openswan · Openswan

95%

1.0.4 1.0.5 1.0.6 1.0.7 1.0.8 1.0.9 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.4 2.1.5 2.1.6 2.2 2.3

xelerance-openswan (same device)

Openswan · Xelerance

95%

2.3.1 2.4.0 2.4.2 2.4.4 2.6.03 2.6.04 2.6.05 2.6.06 2.6.07 2.6.08 2.6.09 2.6.10 2.6.11 2.6.12 2.6.13 2.6.14 2.6.15 2.6.16

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (15)

x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch

Source: [email protected]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496374

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openswan

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/34182

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/34472

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch

Source: [email protected]

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATPatch

Source: [email protected]

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501624/100/0/threaded

CVSS

4.4MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-59

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