Package : cfengine Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2960
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 have will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your cfengine package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------