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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-12 Moderate: Openswan Symlink Vulnerability Mitigation

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2009
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The Openswan security bulletin highlights vulnerabilities stemming from unsafe temporary file generation, enabling symlink exploitation on the Gentoo Linux platform.
An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Openswan, allowing for symlink attacks.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Openswan: Insecure temporary file creation Date: March 09, 2009 Bugs: #238574 ID: 200903-18

Synopsis ======= An insecure temporary file usage has been reported in Openswan, allowing for symlink attacks.
Background ========= Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/openswan < 2.4.13-r2 >= 2.4.13-r2
========== Dmitry E. Oboukhov reported that the IPSEC livetest tool does not handle the ipseclive.conn and ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files securely.
Impact ===== A local attacker could perform symlink...

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