CVE-2005-2960

Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a discovered that several tools in the cfengine package (vicf, cfmailfilter, and cfcron) create and use temporary files in an insecure way A local attacker could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the cfengine program ...

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 ...