cve/2008/CVE-2008-4190.md

CVE-2008-4190

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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9135

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.