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<glsa id="200903-18">
  <title>Openswan: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Openswan, allowing
    for symlink attacks.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openswan</product>
  <announced>2009-03-09</announced>
  <revised count="01">2009-03-09</revised>
  <bug>238574</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/openswan" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.4.13-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.13-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the IPSEC livetest tool does not
    handle the ipseclive.conn and ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files
    securely.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to execute arbitrary
    code and overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user
    running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Openswan users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/openswan-2.4.13-r2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4190">CVE-2008-4190</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-01-11T18:17:28Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-02-12T18:08:11Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-02-12T18:08:22Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>
