CVE-2008-4190
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 1.1%
exploitation probability
1.1%top 37% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
cve_reference✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9135⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496374http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/openswanhttps://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460425http://secunia.com/advisories/34182http://secunia.com/advisories/34472https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45250https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10078https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9135http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html