Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55555
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-198-1 (cfengine)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-198-1 (cfengine)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to cfengine announced via advisory USN-198-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: cfengine Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena 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. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.6.5-1ubuntu0.4.10.1 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 1.6.5-1ubuntu0.5.04.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-198-1 Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2960 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871 http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cfengine.help/browse_thread/thread/fc25e7d98f8ba401/38151ed821803be0#38151ed821803be0 Debian Security Information: DSA-835 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-835 Debian Security Information: DSA-836 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:184 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:023 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-198-1 BugTraq ID: 14994 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14994 http://secunia.com/advisories/17037/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17038 http://secunia.com/advisories/17040 http://secunia.com/advisories/17142 http://secunia.com/advisories/17182 http://secunia.com/advisories/17215 XForce ISS Database: cfengine-mulitple-file-symlink(22489) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/22489 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3137
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