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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<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>