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Debian: New versions of cfengine fixes symlink attack

Wichert Akkerman
Writes:

The maintainer of Debian GNU/Linux cfengine package found a
error in the way cfengine handles temporary files when it runs the
tidy action on homedirectories, which makes it suspectible to a
symlink attack. The author has been notified of the problem but has
not released a fix yet.

We recommend you upgrade your cfengine package immediately.

wget url
   will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm
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This version of Debian was released only for the Intel and the
Motorola 680×0 architecture.

Source archives:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/admin/cfengine_1.4.9.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: 9c952524f2ce0a3dae6728f63d28a3ce


ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: 9de13ab36791319a846f5d50248b8ed5


ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3.dsc

MD5 checksum: 6d5f1d2c10ec0a0eeef07dd73244bb44

Intel architecture:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: c935781e39141fdcc5b3e3e7a1b5ac7b

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/admin/cfengine_1.4.9-3_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 8628802255c66796f8acd3fe1844bb0b

For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/.

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