CVE-2005-2960

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

cfengine 1.6.5 and 2.1.16 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3137.

cfengine 1.6.5 and 2.1.16 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by vicf.in, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3137.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-10-05 19:02:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:33:00

Affected Software

GNU Cfengine 1.5

1.5

GNU Cfengine 1.5.3_4

1.5.3-4

GNU Cfengine 1.6.5

1.6.5

GNU Cfengine 2.0.0

2.0.0

GNU Cfengine 2.0.1

2.0.1

GNU Cfengine 2.0.2

2.0.2

GNU Cfengine 2.0.3

2.0.3

GNU Cfengine 2.0.4

2.0.4

GNU Cfengine 2.0.5

2.0.5

GNU Cfengine 2.0.6

2.0.6

GNU Cfengine 2.0.7

2.0.7

GNU Cfengine 2.0.8

2.0.8

GNU Cfengine 2.1.8

2.1.8

GNU Cfengine 2.1.9

2.1.9

GNU Cfengine 2.1.16

2.1.16

Debian Debian Linux 3.1

3.1

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871

Vendor Advisory

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cfengine.help/browse_thread/thread/fc25e7d98f8ba401/38151ed821803be0#38151ed821803be0

Patch, Vendor Advisory

17037

Vendor Advisory

17038

17040

17142

17182

17215

DSA-835

Patch

DSA-836

Patch

MDKSA-2005:184

SUSE-SR:2005:023

14994

USN-198-1

cfengine-mulitple-file-symlink(22489)

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