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Bug 709037 - (CVE-2011-2147) CVE-2011-2147 openswan: World writable pid and lock files
CVE-2011-2147 openswan: World writable pid and lock files
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
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Reported: 2011-05-30 09:00 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2011-05-31 03:33 EDT (History)
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-05-30 09:00:12 EDT
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-2147 to
the following vulnerability:

Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/
starter.pid, related to starter.c in the IPsec starter, and (2) /var/lock/
subsys/ipsec, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing
a PID to a file, or possibly bypass disk quotas by writing arbitrary data to
a file, as demonstrated by files with 0666 permissions, a different
vulnerability than CVE-2011-1784.

References:
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00013.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00018.html
[3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/05/msg00012.html
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-05-31 03:32:25 EDT
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of openswan as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6.
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-05-31 03:33:57 EDT
This issue does NOT affect the version of openswan shipped with Fedora 13, Fedora 14 or Fedora 15

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