USN-198-1: cfengine vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 5.04
• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña 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.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04

• cfengine -

Ubuntu 4.10

• cfengine -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-2960
• CVE-2005-3137