CVE-2005-2960 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871 http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.cfengine.help/browse_thread/thread/fc25e7d98f8ba401/38151ed821803be038151ed821803be0 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 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-835 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-836 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:184 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14994 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-198-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22489