Debian Security Advisory
DSA-836-1 cfengine2 -- insecure temporary files
- Date Reported:
- 01 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- cfengine2
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2960, CVE-2005-3137.
- More information:
-
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered insecure temporary file use in cfengine2, 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.
The oldstable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.14-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your cfengine2 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2-doc_2.1.14-1sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine2/cfengine2_2.1.14-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.