CVE-2011-2147 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2011-2147

Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid,...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

openswan
Vulnerable Versions:
2.2.0, 2.2.1

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2011
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.