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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.3-9woody1.diff.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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfengine/cfengine_1.6.5-1sarge1.diff.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.