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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2008-4966 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (openswan), 11 status rows across 11 suites (dapper, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): ignored 5, not-affected 5, released 1.
linux-patch-openswan 2.4.12 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (a) /tmp/snap##### and (b) /tmp/nightly##### temporary files, related to the (1) maysnap and (2) maytest scripts.