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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55555
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-198-1 (cfengine)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description: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

CVSS Score:
2.1

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2960
BugTraq ID: 14994
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14994
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
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cfengine.help/browse_thread/thread/fc25e7d98f8ba401/38151ed821803be0#38151ed821803be0
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
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
XForce ISS Database: cfengine-mulitple-file-symlink(22489)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22489
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3137
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