Debian Security Advisory

DSA-835-1 cfengine -- insecure temporary files

Date Reported:
01 Oct 2005
Affected Packages:
cfengine
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2960, CVE-2005-3137.
More information:

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered several insecure temporary file uses in cfengine, a tool for configuring and maintaining networked machines, that can be exploited by a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user executing cfengine, which is probably root.

For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.3-9woody1.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.5-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your cfengine package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine-doc_1.6.3-9woody1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine-doc_1.6.5-1sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.