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
Statement: Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of openswan as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6.
This issue does NOT affect the version of openswan shipped with Fedora 13, Fedora 14 or Fedora 15