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cfengine: insecure temporary files

Package(s):cfengine CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2960
Created:October 3, 2005 Updated:October 14, 2005
Description: 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.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:184 2005-10-13
Ubuntu USN-198-1 2005-10-10
Debian DSA-836-1 2005-10-01
Debian DSA-835-1 2005-10-01
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