DSA-836-1 cfengine2 -- insecure temporary files

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

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.