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Debian DSA-836-1 : cfengine2 - insecure temporary files

low Nessus Plugin ID 19805

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena 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.

Solution

Upgrade the cfengine2 package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.14-1sarge1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 19805

File Name: debian_DSA-836.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cfengine2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2960, CVE-2005-3137

DSA: 836