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cfengine -- arbitrary file overwriting vulnerability

Affected packages
		cfengine	<	2.1.6_1
0	<	cfengine2

Details

VuXML ID	8688d5cd-328c-11da-a263-0001020eed82
Discovery	2005-10-01
Entry	2005-10-01
Modified	2005-10-07

A Debian Security Advisory reports:

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.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	14994
CVE Name	CVE-2005-2960
URL	http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-835
URL	http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836